ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,347, issued on May 13, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for transition encoding compatible PAM4 encoding" was invented by Anup P. Jose (San Jose, Calif.), Amir Amirkhany (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Moonsang Hwang (Yeongdeungpo-gu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a first encoder configured to receive first input bits and generate a first stream of first bits based on the first input bits, a bit generator configured to receive second inputs bits and generate a second stream of second bits based on the second input bits, and a PAM4 transmitter configured t...