ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,259, issued on May 13, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Decoding apparatus, decoding method and program" was invented by Jun Muramatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding device includes a memory and a processor configured to execute inputting a code word encoded by a polar code from an original message; decoding the original message from the code word based on a conditional probability expressed by a symmetric parameterization and having observation information as a condition; and outputting the decoded original message."

The patent was filed on Jan. 4, 2021, under Application No. 18/258,9...