ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,200, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MAXLINEAR INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Multi-channel decoder with distributed scheduling" was invented by Gert Schedelbeck (Munich) and Stefan Uhlemann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-channel decoder circuit associated with a multi-channel decoder system is disclosed. The multi-channel decoder circuit comprises a distributed decoder circuit comprising a set of unit decoder circuits, each unit decoder circuit configured to receive one or more codewords of a plurality of codewords associated with a plurality of input channels, and decode the one or more codewords. The multi-channel de...