ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,662, issued on April 14, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Encoder" was invented by Win-San Khwa (Taipei City, Taiwan), Hiroki Noguchi (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ku-Feng Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding system may be provided. The encoding system may comprise a first stage and a second stage. The first stage may be configured to receive a first input, decode the first input, and produce a first output comprising the decoded first input. The second stage may be configured to receive a second input, receive the first output from the first stage, and conver...