ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,716, issued on April 21, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"On-the-fly CRC calculation for a horizontal layered LDPC decoder" was invented by Fan Zhang (San Jose, Calif.) and Meysam Asadi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and memory system for on-the-fly horizontal layer error code processing of data for memory storage and retrieval. The method and associated system provide for generating a parity check matrix H1 including a payload portion and a parity portion, rearranging user data circulants within rows of the payload portion to different row positions; and forming a bottom-sorted p...