ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,246, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding/decoding method, communication apparatus, and system" was invented by Jiahui Li (Shenzhen, China), Mengyao Ma (Shenzhen, China), Junwen Xie (Shenzhen, China), Hongliang Wei (Harbin, China), Mingze Ding (Harbin, China), Xiaopeng Fan (Harbin, China) and Wenbin Che (Harbin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example encoding/decoding methods, communication apparatus, and systems are provided. One example encoding method includes encoding first data by using an encoding model, to obtain N pieces of encoded data, where N is an integer greater...