Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

Zining Wu

319Patents
29h-index
67Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 3, 2000 → Jul 3, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7184486B1 LDPC encoder and decoder and method thereof Electricity 204 Expired
US6473010B1 Method and apparatus for determining error correction code failure rate for iterative decoding algorithms Electricity 134 Expired
US7685494B1 Error correction coding for varying signal-to-noise ratio channels Electricity 103 Active
US7805664B1 Likelihood metric generation for trellis-based detection and/or decoding Electricity 103 Active
US7961797B1 Nonlinear viterbi complexity reduction Electricity 92 Active
US7113356B1 Method for checking the quality of servo gray codes Physics 80 Expired
US7199961B1 Detecting fly height of a head over a storage medium Physics 64 Expired
US7136250B1 Detecting fly height of a head over a storage medium Physics 57 Expired
US7844879B2 Method and system for error correction in flash memory Physics 56 Active
US8190961B1 System and method for using pilot signals in non-volatile memory devices Electricity 56 Active
US8228728B1 Programming method for multi-level cell flash for minimizing inter-cell interference Physics 56 Active
US7203013B1 Method and apparatus for asymmetry correction in magnetic recording channels Physics 55 Active
US8255763B1 Error correction system using an iterative product code Electricity 55 Active
US7000177B1 Parity check matrix and method of forming thereof Electricity 54 Expired
US7072417B1 LDPC encoder and method thereof Electricity 54 Expired
US8300339B1 Method and system for compensating for adjacent tracks during reading of data Physics 51 Active
US7840878B1 Systems and methods for data-path protection Electricity 47 Active
US8219878B1 Post-processing decoder of LDPC codes for improved error floors Electricity 47 Active
US7571372B1 Methods and algorithms for joint channel-code decoding of linear block codes Physics 47 Active
US8255765B1 Embedded parity coding for data storage Electricity 43 Active
US7715135B1 Methods, circuits, apparatus, and systems for read channel synchronization and/or fly height measurement Physics 40 Active
US6965652B1 Address generator for LDPC encoder and decoder and method thereof Physics 40 Expired
US6888897B1 Multi-mode iterative detector Electricity 40 Expired
US8473812B2 Method and system for error correction in flash memory Physics 39 Active
US8028216B1 Embedded parity coding for data storage Electricity 33 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.