US Patent Issued to Yangtze Memory Technologies on March 4 for "Error correction method, memory system and memory controller" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,341, issued on March 4, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Hubei, China).

"Error correction method, memory system and memory controller" was invented by Hua Tan (Wuhan, China), Dili Wang (Wuhan, China), Xuqing Jia (Wuhan, China) and Teng Zhou (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide for error correction. The error correction includes: obtaining first soft data according to first hard read data and cached second hard read data after hard decision decoding for the first hard read data fails, wherein the first hard read data is read according to a first hard read voltage, and the second hard read ...