ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,749, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for generating error correcting codes with transition encoding" was invented by Aliazam Abbasfar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for encoding data including receiving at least one block of data; encoding the at least one block of data by generating a two-dimensional (2D) table having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, wherein one or more bits included in the at least one block is formed as a first row included in the plurality of rows, an odd parity bit is ...