ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,119, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Minimizing redundancy for stuck bit coding" was invented by Ivana Djurdjevic (San Jose, Calif.), Cyril Guyot (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert Mateescu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device minimizes redundancy for stuck bit codes when writing a message to a memory device. A controller generates a set of masks that are codewords and that include values that correspond to stuck bit values. The set of masks may include full length codewords or shortened codewords. When the controller receives a message including a pred...