US Patent Issued to Arrowhead Center, University of Notre Dame du Lac on June 17 for "Threshold-based min-sum algorithm to lower the error floors of quantized low-density parity-check decoders" (New Mexico, California, Illinois, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,954, issued on June 17, was assigned to Arrowhead Center Inc. (Las Cruces, N.M.) and University of Notre Dame du Lac (South Bend, Ind.).

"Threshold-based min-sum algorithm to lower the error floors of quantized low-density parity-check decoders" was invented by Homayoon Hatami (San Diego), David G. Mitchell (Las Cruces, N.M.), Daniel Costello (Clarendon Hills, Ill.) and Thomas Fuja (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modified version of the min-sum algorithm ("MSA") which can lower the error floor performance of quantized LDPC decoders. A threshold attenuated min-sum algorithm ("TAMSA") and/or threshold offset min-sum ...