US Patent Issued to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for constructing fast converging polar codes with belief progapation decoder" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,344, issued on May 27, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for constructing fast converging polar codes with belief progapation decoder" was invented by Jeongseok Ha (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seokju Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for constructing a fast converging polar code based on a belief propagation decoder. The method includes analyzing decoding importance for each individual bit of an initial belief propagation decoder, and reconstructing the polar code depending on an analyzing result."

The patent was...