ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,135, issued on June 2, was assigned to Credo Technology Group Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Fast efficient decoder for low distance RS and BCH codes" was invented by Chang Shu (Saratoga, Calif.), Yu Liao (Longmont, Colo.) and Junqing Sun (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative decoder includes: a syndrome calculator, a location finder, and an error corrector. The syndrome calculator has an array of logic gates to obtain syndrome values as a product of a receive message vector and a parity check matrix, the syndrome values including at least a three ten-bit syndrome values S1, S2, and S3. The location fi...