US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 22 for "Communication techniques involving pairwise orthogonality of adjacent rows in LPDC code" (Georgia, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. RE51,040, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Communication techniques involving pairwise orthogonality of adjacent rows in LPDC code" was invented by Thomas Joseph Richardson (South Orange, N.J.), Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego), Shrinivas Kudekar (Roswell, Ga.) and Gabi Sarkis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes having pairwise orthogonality of adjacent rows, and a new decoder that exploits the pairwise row orthogonality for flexible decoder scheduling without performance loss. An apparatus includes a receiver con...