ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,308, issued on April 21, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"In-memory partial checksum calculation with flexible media coverage" was invented by Fan Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Meysam Asadi (San Jose, Calif.) and Qiuju Diao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device and method for a partial checksum calculation using a sub-matrix with flexible media coverage inside of a memory device (i.e., NAND) of a memory system. The memory device includes: a plurality of memory cells; a control circuit configured to read a codeword sequence from the plurality of memory cells, and determine a sub-matrix...