ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,857, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Puncturing in segment processing" was invented by Jing Yuan Sun (Beijing), Mads Lauridsen (Aalborg, Denmark), Tzu-Chung Hsieh (Naperville, Ill.), Frank Frederiksen (Aalborg, Denmark) and Gilsoo Lee (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer-readable storage medium for symbol puncturing in segment processing. In some example embodiments, a first determines a puncturing pattern for one or more segments for performing puncturing, the puncturing pattern indicatin...