ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,665, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Zhongshan Longsys Electronics Co. Ltd. (Zhongshan, China).

"Soft decoding method, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Guiqiang Dong (Zhongshan, China), Xiaoyi Zhang (Zhongshan, China), Ao Li (Zhongshan, China) and Xichun Gao (Zhongshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft decoding method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The soft decoding method includes: performing a hard read on a storage device and performing a hard decoding based on a read data of the hard read; determining, in response to the hard decoding being failed, a soft-decoding reference data b...