US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 8 for "Hard information decoder aided by a soft information decoder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,714, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Hard information decoder aided by a soft 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 performs a read operation to receive hard data from the memory device. The controller converts the hard data into soft information. The controller can decode using a first decoder ...