US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 16 for "Techniques to encode and decode for character class matching" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,102, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques to encode and decode for character class matching" was invented by Yang Hong (Shanghai), Hao Chang (Shanghai), Xiang Wang (Shanghai), Wenjun Zhu (Shanghai) and Kun Qiu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include techniques to encode and decode for character class matching. A character class including a plurality of characters may be encoded in a mask table. A sampled chunk of input data is used to perform a decode operation to check, in a parallel manner, each character included in the input data with the encoded mask table. The che...