ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,693, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods, apparatuses, and optical network devices for uplink FEC encoding and decoding" was invented by Xuming Wu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a method for uplink FEC encoding. On example method includes: obtaining a grant length of an uplink slot, where the grant length is equal to a product of a grant quantity of the uplink slot and a grant granularity, and the grant granularity is a grant granularity supported by a device to which the uplink slot belongs; and obtaining an FEC codeword of uplink data ba...