ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,696, issued on July 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Chengmin Zhang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method and an apparatus are provided. A decoder includes a type detection module, a decoding and prediction module, a state determining module, and an output processing module. The type detection module is configured to detect a type of a to-be-decoded code block. The decoding and prediction module is configured to decode the to-be-decoded code block, and obtain a predicted decoding mode of the to-be-decoded code block. The state...