US Patent Issued to NTT on July 28 for "Decoding circuit, decoding method and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,542, issued on July 28, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Decoding circuit, 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: "Provided is a decoding circuit used for coherent digital signal processing, including: a distributor that distributes a decoding metric obtained by demodulating transmission data transmitted from a transmission device to each of a plurality of lanes on the basis of information on noise generated in a communication channel and a received signal; a first likelihood ...