US Patent Issued to Kioxia on June 30 for "Arithmetic circuit, memory system, and method of controlling nonvolatile memory" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,444, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Arithmetic circuit, memory system, and method of controlling nonvolatile memory" was invented by Naoaki Kokubun (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Kondo (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an arithmetic circuit, a first substitution circuit calculates p/2 first evaluation values by using a first input polynomial having first-order to s-th-order coefficients of the error locator polynomial. When the number of errors is t/2 or less, the arithmetic circuit outputs p pieces of information including: error position information calculated from the first...