US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on July 15 for "Stuck bits encoding and decoding on a storage device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,029, issued on July 15, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Stuck bits encoding and decoding on a storage device" was invented by Robert Mateescu (San Jose, Calif.), Cyril Guyot (San Jose, Calif.) and Ivana Djurdjevic (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device processes storage-free stuck bits information when writing and reading stored on the memory device. A controller encodes the data with cyclic error-correcting codes to generate a codeword and determines that a location in the memory device where codeword is be stored includes a stuck bit. Rather than storing the stuck bi...