ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,352, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kando Labs SA (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Multi-wire permuted forward error correction" was invented by Amin Shokrollahi (Preverenges, Switzerland) and Ali Hormati (Ecublens Vaud, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for obtaining a plurality of information bits, and responsively partitioning the obtained plurality of information bits into a plurality of subsets of information bits, generating a plurality of streams of forward error correction (FEC)-encoded bits using a plurality of FEC encoders receiving respective subsets of the plurality of subsets of inf...