ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,577, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Error correction decoding device" was invented by Takafumi Fujimori (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding device includes a likelihood initialization unit performing initialization process on a storage element for likelihood information used in likelihood calculation of iterative decoding process; a first likelihood calculation unit executing M separate likelihood calculations corresponding to steps 1 to M where M is an integer of 2 or more in likelihood calculation; a second likelihood calculation unit executing M separate likelihood calculations ...