ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,290, issued on March 11, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"System and method for efficient transition encoding" was invented by Aliazam Abbasfar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transition encoding including: receiving a data packet having a packet size; identifying one or more forbidden patterns in the data packet; segmenting the data packet into a plurality of segments based on a location of the one or more forbidden patterns in the data packet; and encoding the plurality of segments by removing the one or more forbidden patterns, and appending position indicator bit...