US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Oct. 27 for "System and method for pre-soft-decoding tracking for NAND flash memories" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,414, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"System and method for pre-soft-decoding tracking for NAND flash memories" was invented by Hanan Weingarten (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flash memory system may include a flash memory and a circuit for performing operations on the flash memory. The circuit may be configured to obtain a first soft read sample by performing a first read operation on a location of the flash memory with a first reference voltage. The circuit may be configured to determine a second reference voltage based on the first soft read sample. The circuit may be configured to obta...