US Patent Issued to MARVELL ASIA on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus for determining bit-error rate in a data channel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,465, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for determining bit-error rate in a data channel" was invented by Yuanjie Chen (Saratoga, Calif.), Davide Visani (San Jose, Calif.) and Min Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a bit-error rate in data received on high-speed data channel that uses a forward-error-correcting decoder includes receiving at receiver circuitry on the high-speed data channel a received predetermined data pattern, comparing, bit-wise, the received predetermined data pattern to a locally generated copy of the predetermined d...