( December 30, 2025, 8:17 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) decision to uphold some challenged claims in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings for a patent describing a system of error correction in flash memory; the panel held that PTAB correctly construed disputed claim phrases “decode” and “decoder.”...