Analog Devices Assigned Patent

Analog Devices, Inc, Norwood, MA, has been assigned a patent (9,036,420) developed by Vigoda, Benjamin, Winchester, MA, Bernstein, Jeffrey, Middleton, MA, Venuti, Jeffrey, Somerville, MA, Alexeyev, Alexander, Gorham, ME, Nestler, Eric, Concord, MA, Reynolds, David, Scarborough, ME, Bradley, William, Jamaica Plain, MA, and Zlatkovic, Vladimir, Belmont, MA, for a “storage devices with soft processing.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage device includes a storage array having a group of storage elements. Each storage element can written to a discrete set of physical states. A read circuit selects one or more storage elements and generates, for each selected storage element, an analog signal representative of the physical state of the selected storage element. A signal processing circuit processes the analog signal to generate a plurality of outputs, with each output representing a degree of an association of the selected storage element with a different subset of one or more of the discrete set of physical states.“

The patent application was filed on May 15, 2012 (13/471,816).