STMicroelectronics Assigned Patent

STMicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,996,967) developed by Kaynak, Mustafa N., Risso, Alessandro, and Khayat, Patrick R., San Diego, CA, for a “rendering data write errors detectable.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An embodiment of a data write path includes encoder and write circuits. The encoder circuit is configured to code data so as to render detectable a write error that occurs during a writing of the coded data to a storage medium, and the write circuit is configured to write the coded data to the storage medium. For example, such an embodiment may allow rendering detectable a write error that occurs while writing data to a bit-patterned storage medium.“

The patent application was filed on August 6, 2010 (12/852,368).