US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Sept. 29 for "Apparatus and method for power reduction in a bit flipping decoder" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,068, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for power reduction in a bit flipping decoder" was invented by Bi Woong Chung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dae Sung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a memory device and a controller. The memory device is configured to output a codeword. The controller is configured to establish, from the codeword, a plurality of variable nodes and a plurality of check nodes, and schedule a decoding operation to ensure that a number of check-sum updates during one cycle of the decoding operati...