US Patent Issued to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY on March 24 for "Data padding device and data padding method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,596, issued on March 24, was assigned to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"Data padding device and data padding method" was invented by Bing Zhang (Shanghai), Rui He Wang (Shanghai), Yu Jie Qiu (Shanghai) and Wei Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data padding device includes an internal memory, a direct memory access (DMA) circuit and a data processing circuit. The DMA circuit performs, according to a first padding control signal, data padding in a first direction on raw data during a process of reading the raw data from an external memory to generate first-direction padding data, and stores the first-directio...