US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 2 for "Packet-based universal bit-field masking coding using configurable sparsity information" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,129, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Packet-based universal bit-field masking coding using configurable sparsity information" was invented by Haoping Xu (North York, Canada), Prajakt Kulkarni (San Diego), Suze Balatsos (Markham, Canada), Zhaohui Du (Markham, Canada), Shiqi Sun (Newmarket, Canada), Xiaoxuan Yu (Richmond Hill, Canada), Nanda Kumar Aswatha Kumar (North York, Canada) and Sheng Zhan (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for compressing data. A process can include generating a compressed sub-packet by removing one or more sparsity bytes from a...