US Patent Issued to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION on Dec. 16 for "Polar code-based decoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,696, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Polar code-based decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Youngjoo Lee (Pohang-si, South Korea), Young Seok Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Dain Park (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polar code-based decoding method may comprise: converting a plurality of LLRs of calculation-target bits into a plurality of absolute (ABS) LLR values; sorting the plurality of ABS LLR values in order of size so that a minimum ABS LLR value is designated from among the plurality of ABS LLR values; multiply...