ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,944, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding method and encoding apparatus based on polar code" was invented by Jiaqi Gu (Shenzhen, China), Mengyao Ma (Shenzhen, China), Jiahui Li (Shenzhen, China), Zihan Tang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Lin (Shenzhen, China) and Yinggang Du (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an encoding method and an encoding apparatus based on a polar code, to improve compression performance of a source sequence of a limited length. The method includes: obtaining a source bit sequence; encoding the source bit sequence by using a p...