US Patent Issued on March 17 for "Q Margin" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,679, issued on March 17.

"Q Margin" was invented by Yue Pan (Boston) and Jonas Geyer (Somwerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and ASIC chip for comparing a bit error rate (BER) to a forward error correction (FEC) threshold to determine a Q margin for a codeblock; wherein the BER corresponds to the number of errors in a given amount of data; where a codeblock of a FEC corresponds to the given amount of data; wherein the FEC threshold corresponds to the maximum amount of errors per codeblock that the FEC is able to remove per given amount of data; wherein the Q margin corresponds to a difference between the...