US Patent Issued to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE on June 24 for "Optimization of the computation of parity check messages in a min-sum LDPC decoding method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,531, issued on June 24, was assigned to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Optimization of the computation of parity check messages in a min-sum LDPC decoding method" was invented by Lyonel Barthe (Toulouse, France) and Benjamin Gadat (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an LDPC decoding method which involves performing iterations until a stop criterion is satisfied. Each iteration involves computing variable messages (Alphan,m), computing parity check messages (Betam,n), and computing a posteriori estimation variables. Computing a parity check message (Betam,n) for a parity check ...