ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,118, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Encoding device, encoding method, decoding device, decoding method, and program" was invented by Tatsuya Sugioka (Tokyo), Toshihisa Hyakudai (San Diego), Masayuki Unuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Okazawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Aritoshi Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Shiroshita (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, a decoding method, and a program enabling encoding with favorable transmission efficiency with a controlled running disparity.A calcu...