US Patent Issued to NTT on Aug. 4 for "Encoding circuit, decoding circuit, encoding method, decoding method, and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,874, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Encoding circuit, decoding circuit, encoding method, decoding method, and computer program" was invented by Takeshi Kakizaki (Musashino, Japan), Masanori Nakamura (Musashino, Japan) and Fukutaro Hamaoka (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding circuit including: a serial-parallel circuit that performs serial-parallel conversion on input data of a uniform sequence to divide the data into a plurality of pieces of divided data; a sequence conversion unit that encodes the divided data and converts the encoded divided data into divided data of a non-uniform seque...