US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 16 for "Interleaved Reed-Solomon (IRS) with collaborative decoding" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,009, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Interleaved Reed-Solomon (IRS) with collaborative decoding" was invented by Joseph M. McCrate (Boise, Idaho), Kirthi Shenoy (Boise, Idaho), Marco Sforzin (Boise, Idaho) and Brian M. Twait (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a memory system comprising a plurality of memory components. The ECC decoding is configured to construct first and second codewords from a single set of data within the plurality of memory components and perform error correction code (ECC) decoding on the first and second codewords received read from the plurality ...