US Patent Issued to Polar Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Method and system for decoding" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. RE51,025, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Polar Technologies LLC (Dallas).

"Method and system for decoding" was invented by Warren Gross (Montreal), Saied Hemati (Montreal), Shie Mannor (Montreal), Ali Naderi (Montreal) and Francois Leduc-Primeau (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes offer error correction at rates approaching the link channel capacity and reliable and efficient information transfer over bandwidth or return-channel constrained links with data-corrupting noise present. They also offer performance approaching channel capacity exponentially fast in terms of the code length, linear pr...