US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Dec. 16 for "System and method for rate adaptation of packet-oriented client data for transmission over a metro transport network (MTN)" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,822, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"System and method for rate adaptation of packet-oriented client data for transmission over a metro transport network (MTN)" was invented by Steven Scott Gorshe (Beaverton, Ore.) and Winston Mok (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing rate adaptation of sub1G packet-oriented client signals for transmission over a Metro Transport Network (MTN) by forming a 64B/66B-encoded client signal from individual client packets of the sub1G packet-oriented client signal and the idle blocks within an inter-packet gap (I...