ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,403, issued on May 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Polar encoding and decoding method and apparatus for satellite communication" was invented by Shengchen Dai (Hangzhou, China), Huazi Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Jiajie Tong (Hangzhou, China), Xianbin Wang (Hangzhou, China), Rong Li (Hangzhou, China), Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Wei Huang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polar encoding and decoding method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining K to-be-encoded bits; selecting K sequence numbers from a first sequence, where the to-be-encoded bits are placed on polar chan...