US Patent Issued to SONY on Dec. 16 for "Transmission apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method for latency reduction using FEC packets at MAC layer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,692, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transmission apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method for latency reduction using FEC packets at MAC layer" was invented by Thomas Handte (Stuttgart, Germany), Dana Ciochina (Stuttgart, Germany) and Nabil Sven Loghin (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission apparatus for use in a communication system comprises MAC layer processing circuitry and PHY layer processing circuitry. The MAC layer processing circuitry is configured to encode, on a MAC layer, N data units, each comprising payload data, into M parity units, each comprising parity ...