ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,671, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Joint LDPC and raid decoding scheme" was invented by Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Ran Zamir (Ramat Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An error correction code (ECC) system of a data storage device utilizes a joint decoding scheme to correct errors in a codeword when the codeword has failed a decoding process using a first decoding scheme. The ECC system uses information derived from the second decoding scheme to generate soft bit information, or reliability information, associated with a portio...