US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 2 for "Decoding data using a constrained bit-flipping technique" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,535, issued on June 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Decoding data using a constrained bit-flipping technique" was invented by Mustafa N. Kaynak (San Diego), Mariano Burich (San Diego), Eyal En Gad (Fremont, Calif.) and Sivagnanam Parthasarathy (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for decoding data from a memory device. For example, a controller can perform a read operation to receive the data. The controller executes a first decoding operation to correct a bit error in one or more weak bits of the data. In some instances, during the first decoding operation, one ...