US Patent Issued to Infinera on Jan. 13 for "Power consumption reduction in soft decoding of generalized product codes" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,072, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Infinera Corp..

"Power consumption reduction in soft decoding of generalized product codes" was invented by Mehdi Torbatian (Ottawa), Alex Nicolescu (Ottawa) and Han Henry Sun (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for more efficiently decoding generalized product codes (GPC) are described. A receiving device equipped with a decoder is configured to receive GPC-encoded signals and implement an early termination method to avoid executing multiple operations of the decoding scheme typically used by the receiving device. The receiving device can identify whether a particular co...