US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 27 for "Reliability enabled hard information decoder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,385, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Reliability enabled hard information decoder" was invented by Mustafa N. Kaynak (San Diego), Mariano Burich (San Diego), Eyal En Gad (Fremont, Calif.), Patrick R. Khayat (San Diego) 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 hard data from a memory device. For example, a controller converts the hard data into soft information. The controller decodes the hard data using a first decoder for a first number of decoding iterations to provide an error vector indicating which bits ...