ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,756, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for joint de-interleaving and rate recovery in a receiver" was invented by Thirunathan Sutharsan (San Diego), Mohanned Sinnokrot (San Diego), Wai Chan (San Diego) and Mihail Petrov (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system can perform joint de-interleaving and rate recovery on data elements from a received transmission. A load engine can write new data elements for a portion of a received code block into a de-interleaving buffer in a column-wise order. A de-rate-matching engine can read the new data elements in row-wise orde...