ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,348, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Polar code segment encoding method and related apparatus" was invented by Yan Chen (Shanghai), Guanjun Ni (Shanghai), Yuhong Zhu (Shanghai), Bingguang Peng (Shanghai), Shangbang Sun (Shanghai), Jingjing Yao (Shanghai) and Rong Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polar code segment encoding method and a related apparatus are disclosed, and the method includes: determining, based on an information bit quantity of a first information bit sequence and a first code rate, a target code length for polar code encoding; determining an initial c...