ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,542, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Error-handling with multiple levels of decoders" was invented by Mustafa N. Kaynak (San Diego), Patrick R. Khayat (San Diego) and Sivagnanam Parthasarathy (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding data includes determining, by an error-handling module of a controller, that a hard read of a first codeword hard read from a first wordline has errors responsive to a first-level low density parity check (LDPC) decoder failing to correct the errors of the first codeword. The controller executes a hard read of a second wordline to pr...