US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 26 for "Low-density parity-check coding including punctured auxiliary bits" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,845, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Low-density parity-check coding including punctured auxiliary bits" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego), Pinar Sen (San Diego), Thomas Joseph Richardson (South Orange, N.J.) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-density parity-check encoder is provided that encodes a plurality of information bits according to a low-density parity-check matrix. The encoder generates auxiliary bits from the information bits, and the transmitter punctures the auxiliary bits while transmitting the information bits, thereby preserving a shape of the information bit...