US Patent Issued to Altera on July 15 for "Load balanced decoder systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,770, issued on July 15, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Load balanced decoder systems and methods" was invented by Spanta Ashjaee (San Jose, Calif.), Gee Hang Lui (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiun-Yee Lin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding circuit system includes a load balancing scheduler circuit, a full range decoder circuit, and an auxiliary decoder circuit. The load balancing scheduler circuit provides codewords that each have a lifting factor greater than a predefined value to the full range decoder circuit. The full range decoder circuit decodes the codewords that each have a lifting factor ...