ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,733, issued on May 27, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Ethernet transceiver coding module" was invented by Bernd Uwe Gerhard Elend (Hamburg, Germany), Gerrit Willem den Besten (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Rigor Hendrikus Lambertus van der Heijden (Elst, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a coding module for an Ethernet transceiver. The coding module may include circuitry configured to: receive data-signaling representative of one or more data words; encode the data-signaling into one or more DC-balanced words each having a DC-balanced-word-length; provide a prepended-word for a fi...