ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,493, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Multi-stage decoder with adaptive learning" was invented by David Avraham (Even Yehuda, Israel), Ran Zamir (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes an error correction code (ECC) system and a decoder gear determination system. The decoder gear determination system dynamically enhances error correction capabilities of a decoder of the ECC system should the decoder fail to decode a codeword. The decoder gear determination system enhances the error correction capabilities ...