US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "System and method for protecting data using cyclic properties of error correcting code" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,882, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for protecting data using cyclic properties of error correcting code" was invented by Majid Anaraki Nemati (San Diego), Terry M. Grunzke (Boise, Idaho) and Brett K. Dodds (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating first encoded data by performing a first encoding of data included within each of a plurality of memory dies of a memory module using an exclusive-or (XOR) encoding process. Second encoded data is generated by performing a second encoding of t...