US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 29 for "Encoding metadata information in a codeword" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,070, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Encoding metadata information in a codeword" was invented by Marco Sforzin (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory device may encode a codeword that encodes multiple data bits, multiple parity bits, and at least one metadata bit. The memory device may perform a first decoding procedure using the codeword to determine a first decoded set of bits by using a first hypothesized value of the at least one metadata bit. The memory device may perform a second decoding procedure to determine a second decoded...