ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,008, issued on March 11, was assigned to Luminous Computing Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for serialized communication" was invented by Ben Melton (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Dave Baker (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for serializing communications in the computing field includes serializing input data into a serialized stream of symbols, based on one or more encodings, at a serializer, each symbol including a disparity code selected based on a running disparity (RD) of the serialized stream of symbols. The running disparity (RD) is tracked by setting the RD to an initial value, and then a...