ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,533, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and device for polar code encoding and decoding" was invented by Valerio Bioglio (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Carlo Condo (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for generating a polar code; and also, encoding and decoding data using a polar code. The method of generating a polar code includes obtaining a first matrix as an m-fold Kronecker product of a 2x2 binary lower triangular matrix where m=log 2(M/2), Mgreater thanN, and N is the length of a polar code to be generated. A second matrix may be obtained, wher...