US Patent Issued to Intel on May 27 for "Self-organized encoder architectures including blind input swapping support" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,351, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Self-organized encoder architectures including blind input swapping support" was invented by Yikui Dong (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an encoder to convert a thermometer code into a binary code output information or a Gray code output information. The encoder supports blind input swapping, such that it provides correct output information without prior knowledge of the input swapping. Some embodiments also include a truth table that has additional rows to describe output information when input information at inputs o...