ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,736, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Concatenated code encoding method, concatenated code decoding method, and communication apparatus" was invented by Fedor Ivanov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Kangjian Qin (Hangzhou, China), Yue Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Rong Li (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides example concatenated code encoding and decoding methods. In one example method, polar code encoding is performed on a to-be-encoded message bit sequence based on a frozen bit set and a message bit set that are ...