US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Jan. 20 for "Dual-error correcting code (ECC) for metadata in memory system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,257, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Dual-error correcting code (ECC) for metadata in memory system" was invented by Jun Zhu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Error correcting first uncorrected data according to a first error correcting code produces first corrected data and an indicator of whether a device failure is detected. Responsive to the indicator indicating that a device failure is detected, error correcting second uncorrected data according to (1) a second error correcting code and (2) an erasure decoding mode, and using an identification of a failing device produced by ...