US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 8 for "Soft combining based on automorphisms of polar codes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,304, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Soft combining based on automorphisms of polar codes" was invented by Kirill Ivanov (La Jolla, Calif.), Wei Yang (San Diego) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for soft combining of polar encoded transmissions. An example method, performed at a network node, generally includes obtaining multiple codeword permutations corresponding to different payloads, wherein the different payloads comprise first payload portions that are the same and second payload portions that differ in a determin...