US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Parallelized decoding of variable-length prefix codes" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,557, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Parallelized decoding of variable-length prefix codes" was invented by Daniel Lo (Bothell, Wash.) and Blake D. Pelton (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for decoding variable-length codes in a parallel process. A stream of variable-length code words is divided into fixed length words. A plurality of parallel sets of decoder circuits each receive, in parallel, a current fixed length word and a prior fixed length word. Each decoder circuit has a respective fixed leftover bit-count. Each decoder circui...