US Patent Issued to Intel on April 15 for "High speed interconnect symbol stream forward error-correction" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,701, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High speed interconnect symbol stream forward error-correction" was invented by Nausheen Ansari (Folsom, Calif.), Ziv Kabiry (Haifa, Israel) and Gal Yedidia (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques to provide forward error correction for a high-speed interconnect symbol stream, such as, DisplayPort. The symbol stream may be split into FEC blocks and parity bits generated for each of the FEC blocks. The parity bits may be interleaved, encoded, and transmitted over an interconnect along with the symbol stream to provide forw...