ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,073, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Error detection in wireless communications using sectional redundancy check information" was invented by Jamie Menjay Lin (San Diego), Yang Yang (San Diego) and Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for increasing decoding performance and/or reducing decoding complexity. An exemplary method generally includes obtaining a payload to be transmitted, partitioning the payload into a plurality of payload sections, deriving redundancy check information for each respecti...