ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,232, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Physical coding sublayer with modified bit ordering to improve error burst resiliency" was invented by Adee O. Ran (Maayan Baruch, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided to provide modified bit sequences generated by the Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) functional block in a way that considers the subsequent bit-mux operation of the Physical Media Attachment (PMA) sublayer functional block, in order to create symbol sequences for transmission over the physical channels with properties that optimize the performance of the Forward Er...