ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,134, issued on June 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Shaped parity bit recovery via bit-flipping" was invented by 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: "An example includes a method for decoding a shaped codeword that includes shaped data and the shaped parity bits. The shaped codeword has been encoded via an identity matrix comprising an array of layers and block columns of parity data. The method also includes recovering parity data from the shaped parity data of the shaped codeword via the controller. Recoverin...