US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Aug. 18 for "Efficient soft decoding of error correction code via extrinsic bit information" (Israeli, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,048, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Efficient soft decoding of error correction code via extrinsic bit information" was invented by Avi Steiner (Kiriat Motzkin, Israel), Ofir Kanter (Haifa, Israel) and Yasuhiko Kurosawa (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this technical solution can include selecting a plurality of memory locations at a memory device, the memory locations corresponding to a first page including a first plurality of bits and a second page including a second plurality of bits, modifying, based on the first plurality of bits and the second plurality of bits, a f...