US Patent Issued to SK HYNIX on Aug. 18 for "Data relocation based on tracking hard errors in non-volatile memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,885, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Data relocation based on tracking hard errors in non-volatile memory devices" was invented by Haobo Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Fan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for improving performance of an iterative decoder in a non-volatile memory are described. An example method includes obtaining a hard error percentage, a spare byte percentage, and a total error count associated with a first page in the memory device, determining that the total error count is greater than a threshold value that is determined ...