ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,541, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Non-binary GF(q) polar successive cancellation decoder and fast decoding of special nodes" was invented by Afshin Haftbaradaran (San Diego), Alessandro Risso (San Diego), Shravan Kumar Reddy Garlapati (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Kirill Ivanov (La Jolla, Calif.), Jing Jiang (San Diego), Seyyed Ali Hashemi (San Jose, Calif.), Hobin Kim (San Diego) and Hari Sankar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver receives a wireless transmission and decodes the wireless transmission based on a non-binary polar successive cancellation list...