US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on May 5 for "Methods and procedures for polar encoding and decoding with low latency" (South Korean, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,081, issued on May 5, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and procedures for polar encoding and decoding with low latency" was invented by Sungkwon Hong (Seoul, South Korea) and Onur Sahin (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polar code may be initially divided into multiple polar component codes where the features of these component codes, such as the number of component codes and the size of the component codes, are determined based on parameters such as the number of available timing units within a transmission interval, interleaving depth, and decoder capability. For each selected comp...