ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,468, issued on July 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Apparatus and method for random linear code encoding and guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND)" was invented by Valerio Bioglio (Munich) and Ingmar Land (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for encoding an information word of size N into a codeword includes a processing unit to initialize a current vector as being the information word and run T times, T being a predetermined integer greater or equal to 1, a loop. The loop includes generating a scrambled vector by interleaving values of the current vector, grouping values ...