ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,226, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codeword selection for ultra-wideband (UWB)" was invented by Pooria Pakrooh (San Diego), Kanke Wu (San Diego), Stephen Jay Shellhammer (Ramona, Calif.) and Bin Tian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a transmitting UWB device may determine a number of information bits of a payload to communicate via UWB. The transmitting UWB device may select, based on the number of information bits, a codeword length from a selection of available codeword lengths with which to encode the payload using a low-density pari...