US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 23 for "Soft read for NVM that is subject to destructive reads" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,912, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Soft read for NVM that is subject to destructive reads" was invented by Zion Kwok (Burnaby, Canada), Santhosh Vanaparthy (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ravi Motwani (Fremont, Calif.) and Poovaiah Manavattira Palangappa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for supporting error correction of data accessed in a non-volatile (NVM) memory. In an embodiment, a memory controller performs reads each of the same codeword from the NVM, wherein a first read is based on a first reference voltage, and a second read is based on a second refere...