ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,680, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Interleaver design for noncoherent reed muller codes" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego), Jiun-Ting Huang (San Diego), Jay Kumar Sundararajan (San Diego), Runxin Wang (San Diego), Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego) and Tingfang Ji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration for a device to interleave a codeword, where the codeword is based on an enhanced noncoherent error correction code. The apparatus encodes a set of bits based on a noncoherent error correction code to generate a first codeword. The apparatus interlea...