ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,311, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for reduced complexity polar codes based on modified cyclic-redundancy-check (CRC) procedures" was invented by Onur Sahin (London), Ahmet Serdar Tan (London) and Sungkwon Hong (Dongjak-gu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain representative embodiments, methods, apparatus and systems are provided for the selection of component codes for input as cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits during polar encoding. The component polar codes and particular encoded bits in these component codes that will b...