ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,635, issued on July 7, was assigned to InnoGrit Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Controller, system and method for decoding codeword based on historical information" was invented by Yanfang Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Chenrong Xiong (San Jose, Calif.) and Jie Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "LDPC codewords may be decoded based on historical decoding information. In a decoding iteration, the value of flipping energy of a variable node in a codeword is computed based on information representing decoding of the codeword before the decoding iteration. A comparison result is obtained by comparing the value of flipping energy to ...