US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on July 15 for "Apparatus and method for processing transmit data in a transmit data path including parallel FEC encoding" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,769, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Apparatus and method for processing transmit data in a transmit data path including parallel FEC encoding" was invented by Sailaja Akkem (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a data width converter and a forward error correction (FEC) encoder. The data width converter includes an input to receive an input data stream at an input bit width, a first output to produce a first output data stream at a first output bit width, and a second output to produce a second output data stream at a second output bit width. The FEC enc...