ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,464, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Encoding and decoding techniques" was invented by Changlong Xu (Beijing), Shrinivas Kudekar (Roswell, Ga.), Thomas Joseph Richardson (South Orange, N.J.) and Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the disclosure relate to encoding information and decoding information. In some aspects, the disclosure relates to an encoder and a decoder for Polar codes with HARQ. If a first transmission of the encoder fails, information bits associated with a lower quality channel may be retransmitted. At the decoder, the resulting decoded re...