US Patent Issued to Nordic Semiconductor ASA on Dec. 16 for "Punctured convolutional codes" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,694, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Punctured convolutional codes" was invented by Wei Li (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a puncturing pattern for use with a 1/n convolutional code having a predetermined code rate is disclosed. The 1/n convolutional code uses a predetermined set of binary generator polynomials comprising a first generator polynomial and a second generator polynomial, wherein the second generator polynomial has more non-zero coefficients than the first generator polynomial. For each of a plurality of candidate puncturing patter...