ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,664, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding method, decoding method, encoding apparatus, and decoding apparatus" was invented by Fan Wei (Shenzhen, China) and Lei Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device obtains coding information that includes a first information bit and a second information bit. The terminal device selects, based on the first information bit, K groups from a codebook having L groups as activation groups, where both L and K are positive integers, and K is less than L. The terminal device then selects, based on the second information bit, a s...