ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,365, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAFRAN DATA SYSTEMS (Courtaboeuf, France).

"Decoding of series-concatenated turbo codes" was invented by Aomar Bourenane (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Frederic Guilloud (Palaiseau, France) and Matthieu Arzel (Palaiseau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Series turbo-decoder, series turbo-decoding method and computer program product, the series turbo-decoder comprises an input configured to receive a word to be decoded comprising informative data or payload data, internal and external redundancy data, an internal decoder (DCI) and an external decoder (DCE). The internal decoder and the external...