ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,721, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system, and method of wireless communication based on a network coding (NC) scheme" was invented by Wei Mao (San Jose, Calif.), Minyoung Park (San Ramon, Calif.) and Hosein Nikopour (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a wireless communication device may be configured to encode k data packets into n encoded packets according to a Network Coding (NC) scheme, wherein k is equal to or greater than two, and wherein n is greater than k; and to determine a count of x encoded packets out of the n encoded packets, for example, b...