ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,592, issued on March 17, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"LDPC encoding and decoding method" was invented by Seok Ki Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Nam Il Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sangbu Yun (Pohang-si, South Korea), Youngjoo Lee (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Jeongwon Choe (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LDPC encoding method is provided, which is highly scalable and may support a variety of code cases and allow a high processing speed. The LDPC encoding includes: receiving an information sequence to be encoded; segmenting the information sequence i...