US Patent Issued to SK HYNIX on May 20 for "Min-sum decoding for irregular low-density parity check codes in memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,715, issued on May 20, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Min-sum decoding for irregular low-density parity check codes in memory devices" was invented by Meysam Asadi (San Jose, Calif.), Fan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Hongwei Duan (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for improving performance of an iterative decoder in a non-volatile memory are described. An example method includes receiving a noisy codeword that is based on a transmitted codeword generated from an irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code, performing, in a first mode of the iterative decoder and...