ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,844, issued on May 13, was assigned to Raytheon Applied Signal Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Channelized forward error correction" was invented by Lawrence K Warman (Lothian, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one aspect of the present disclosure, a system for encoding and correcting data is provided, the system comprising at least one controller configured to: receive a datablock; channelize the datablock into a plurality of subblocks of varying bit-widths; determine one or more error codes for each subblock of the plurality of subblocks; append at least one of the one or more error codes to each subbloc...