ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,132, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Infineon Technologies LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Non-volatile memory metadata protection" was invented by Yoav Yogev (Mazkeret-Batya, Israel), Amichai Givant (Rosh-Ha'ain, Israel) and Zhizheng Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a non-volatile memory (NVM) device includes: reading, by a memory controller of the NVM device, first metadata bits and first redundant bits stored in an erase sector of a memory cell array of the NVM device, where the first redundant bits are generated using an error-correction code (ECC) for protection of the first metadata bits; a...