US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Encoding and decoding for PAM transmitter and receiver" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,483, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Encoding and decoding for PAM transmitter and receiver" was invented by Jose A. Tierno (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sanjeev S. Gokhale (Austin, Texas), Sunil Bhosekar (Austin, Texas) and William D. Schwarz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding/decoding scheme for pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) communications systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a transmitter unit includes an encoder circuit and a transmit circuit. The encoder circuit is configured to encode an input data word having a first number of bits into a output data word having a second ...