ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,466, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method and system for rate-matching auto-encoders" was invented by Linfang Wang (Los Angeles), Hamid Saber (San Diego), Homayoon Hatami (San Diego), Mohammad Vahid Jamali (San Diego) and Jung Hyun Bae (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system are provided in which a message is encoded, by a neural encoder, to generate a codeword having a first length corresponding to a first code rate of the neural encoder. A number of components of the codeword corresponds to the first code rate. At least one of repeating the components or punc...