ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,945, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatus for performing data encoding or data decoding on different lanes of data streams" was invented by Zengchao Yan (Shenzhen, China), Huixiao Ma (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoling Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Wai Kong Raymond Leung (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method includes: obtaining m lanes of first data streams through m input lanes, where m is a positive integer; processing the m lanes of first data streams to obtain z lanes of second data streams, where z is a positive integer; separately performing en...