ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,656, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding and decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Bin Li (Shenzhen, China), Jiaqi Gu (Shenzhen, China), Huazi Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Shengchen Dai (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding apparatus may obtain a to-be-encoded sequence, where the to-be-encoded sequence includes information bits and fixed bits, and the information bits and the fixed bits are determined based on reliability and/or row weights of generator matrices corresponding to the to-be-encoded bits; and perform a encoding process on the to-be-e...