ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,627, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Polar-BCH combined generalized concatenated codes" was invented by Idan Dekel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yaron Shany (Kfar Saba, Israel), Amit Berman (Binyamina, Israel) and Ariel Doubchak (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory and processing circuitry configured to receive a read request from a host, read an ECC noisy codeword from the memory based on the read request, determine to decode the ECC noisy codeword using a first decoder or a second decoder, and decode the ECC noisy codeword using ...