US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 20 for "Method of error correction code (ECC) decoding and memory system performing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,710, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of error correction code (ECC) decoding and memory system performing the same" was invented by Kangseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Geunyeong Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seonghyeog Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hongrak Son (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngjun Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of error correction code (ECC) decoding, normal read data are read from a nonvolatile memory device based on normal read voltages, and a first ECC decoding is performed with respect to the normal read data....