ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,608, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Parallel QDM encoding" was invented by Liangming Wu (Beijing), Ori Shental (Marlboro, N.J.), Thomas Joseph Richardson (South Orange, N.J.), Kexin Xiao (Shanghai), Wei Liu (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique for parallel distribution matching (DM) encoding. A user equipment (UE) implements the technique to perform a first round of parallel DM encoding using k information bits as input by: 1) segmenting the k information bits into N blocks of information bits,...