US Patent Issued to NTT on Nov. 4 for "Coding circuit, decoding circuit, coding method, decoding method and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,663, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Coding circuit, decoding circuit, coding method, decoding method and computer program" was invented by Takeshi Kakizaki (Musashino, Japan), Masanori Nakamura (Musashino, Japan) and Fukutaro Hamaoka (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an encoding circuit used for coherent digital signal processing, including: a serial-parallel circuit that divides input data into a plurality of pieces of divided data by serial-parallel conversion; a plurality of encoders that adds an error correction code to the divided data and encodes the divided data; and a bit ...