ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,675, issued on Aug. 25.
"Bit and signal level mapping" was invented by Stefan Dietrich (Turkenfeld, Germany), Martin Brox (Munich), Michael Dieter Richter (Ottobrunn, Germany), Thomas Hein (Munich), Ronny Schneider (Hohenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Germany) and Natalija Jovanovic (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for bit and signal level mapping are described to enable a memory device to transmit or receive a multi-symbol signal that includes more than two (2) physical levels. Some cyclic redundancy check (CRC) calculations generate one or more bits of CRC output per symbol of an associated signal and th...