US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Sept. 9 for "Memory system including ECC engine" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,617, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory system including ECC engine" was invented by Seong Yoon Kang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Mun Seon Jang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sang Uhn Cha (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system may include a memory core; and an ECC engine configured to, during a write operation, perform a logical operation on an M-bit write data and an H matrix, and generate an N-bit first error correction code and an N-bit second error correction code to be stored in the memory core together with the write data, where N is an integer ...