US Patent Issued to Parallel Wireless on June 16 for "Cellular networks FEC offload" (Israeli, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,072, issued on June 16, was assigned to Parallel Wireless Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Cellular networks FEC offload" was invented by Efi Dror (Kadima-Zoran, Israel), Christopher Smart (Wiltshire, Great Britain), Steven Paul Papa (Windham, N.H.) and Ofir Ben Ari Katzav (Kadima-Zoran, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed invention presents new approach for FEC implementation as part of existing link between the PHY layer (L1) and MAC layer. In one embodiment a method for providing cellular network Forward Error Correction (FEC) offload, includes merging FEC functionality into the PHY-MAC interface including placing FEC functio...