US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 18 for "Polar coding for beam sweeping broadcast channel" (American, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,407, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Polar coding for beam sweeping broadcast channel" was invented by Dennis Hui (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yufei Blankenship (Kildeer, Ill.) and Anders Wesslen (Staffanstorp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless transmitter comprises: obtaining a first set of bits (comprising a non-time-varying component) for wireless transmission; concatenating a second set of bits (comprising a time-varying component (e.g., beam identifier)) to the first set of bits; encoding the concatenated first and second se...