ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,687, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding method, decoding method, and communication apparatus" was invented by Bin Li (Shenzhen, China), Jiaqi Gu (Shenzhen, China), Huazi Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Wen Tong (Ottawa) and Jianmin Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an encoding method, a decoding method, and a communication apparatus, to improve encoding and decoding performance. The method includes: obtaining n information bit sequences, where n is a quantity of antenna ports, and n is a positive integer greater than 1; performing first cha...