ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,838, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory controller and memory system including the same" was invented by Jae Yong Son (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Dae Sung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Min Su Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein may be a memory controller and a memory system including the same. The memory controller may include an error correction circuit configured to perform error correction decoding on data that is read by read retry operations, a buffer memory configured to store decoding history information including retry fail voltages...