ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,323, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).
"Transmitting device for performing an encoding process on an information bit sequence using a coding scheme selected from a coding scheme set" was invented by Yutaka Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Kimura (Osaka, Japan) and Mikihiro Ouchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One coding method of a plurality of coding methods including at least a first coding method and a second coding method is selected, an information sequence is encoded by using the selected coding method, and an encoded sequence obtained...