BiTMicro Assigned Patent

BiTMicro Networks, Inc., Fremont, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,043,669) developed by Bruce, Rey H., San Jose, CA, Climaco, Joey B., Bislig, Philippines, and Mateo, Noeme P., Pasig, Philippines, for a “distributed ECC engine for storage media.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus, method, and/or sequence for a distributed ECC that may be used in a storage system. In another embodiment of the invention, an apparatus for handling distributed error correction code, (ECC) operations, includes: a plurality of ECC engines configured to perform ECC operations in parallel on multiple data parts, the plurality of ECC engines distributed in parallel to receive some of the multiple data parts that are read from storage media devices and to receive some of the other multiple data parts that are to be written to the storage media devices, and the plurality of ECC engines configured to use respective ECC bytes corresponding to respective ones of the multiple data parts.“

The patent application was filed on May 18, 2012 (13/475,878).