US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 9 for "Maximum a posteriori detector for linear and nonlinear channel impairment" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,245, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Maximum a posteriori detector for linear and nonlinear channel impairment" was invented by Hongbin Zhang (Holmdel, N.J.) and Murat Azizoglu (Maynard, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver configured to receive a plurality of symbols is disclosed. The receiver includes a hard decision decoder, a look-up table (LUT) coupled to the hard decision decoder, and a soft metric generator coupled to the LUT. The hard decision decoder is to receive a first set of symbols from the plurality of symbols and provide a set of hard coded neighboring symbols t...