ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,142, issued on April 21, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Inversion seed generation using scrambler output sequence" was invented by Pengfei Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Fan Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and associated memory system for randomizing memory storage data. The method and system receive at a randomizer user data and meta data having an inversion seed; generate a random sequence using a scrambling seed; generate a value for the inversion seed; XOR the user data including the meta data with the random sequence to produce an XORed sequence; and depending on the val...