US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 20 for "Rate matching and bit freezing for systematic polar codes" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,479, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Rate matching and bit freezing for systematic polar codes" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego), Thomas Joseph Richardson (South Orange, N.J.), Kirill Ivanov (La Jolla, Calif.), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. For example, when an output from a systematic polar encoder has a coded bit length N that differs from a target code length E, locations for bit freezing may be selected such that a resulting set of information bit locations (in...