US Patent Issued to Intel on March 4 for "Encoder and decoder of forward error correction (FEC) codec" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,326, issued on March 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Encoder and decoder of forward error correction (FEC) codec" was invented by Debendra Das Sharma (Saratoga, Calif.) and Swadesh Choudhary (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A FEC codec for generating a check byte for a message. The FEC codec includes a port encoder having a storage unit, a Galois field multiplier, and a sum unit. The storage unit stores a first staged result, which is accumulated based on previous sets of input byte of the message for all clock cycles from a first clock cycle to a clock cycle immediately prior to the curren...