US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Dec. 23 for "Polar encoding method and apparatus and polar decoding method and apparatus" (British, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,495, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Polar encoding method and apparatus and polar decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Mengfan Zheng (London), Cong Ling (London), Jiaqi Gu (Shenzhen, China) and Mengyao Ma (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a polar encoding method and apparatus and a polar decoding method and apparatus, to apply polar codes to source coding and decoding, to improve source coding and decoding performance. The method may be implemented by using the following steps: obtaining to-be-encoded source bits; performing first...