US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus and method for low density parity check code decoding" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,654, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus and method for low density parity check code decoding" was invented by Yannick Lefevre (Heverlee, Belgium) and Paul Cautereels (Hingene, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for low density parity check code decoding in a first processing device, wherein the method includes receiving a first bit-word of a first length related to a log-likelihood ratio of a bit of a signal; obtaining a second bit-word of a second length that is shorter than the first length, wherein obtaining the second bit-word comprises applyin...