US Patent Issued to QINETIQ on Feb. 25 for "Decoder for a receiver" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,366, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to QINETIQ Ltd. (Farnborough, Great Britain).

"Decoder for a receiver" was invented by Malcolm David Macleod (Malvern, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-systematic convolutional decoder of a convolutionally encoded multi-level data stream includes a shift register and two or more paths of exclusive-OR (XOR) gates, arranged to reconstruct an original input information stream, each path having a quantiser arranged to quantise the signal to two levels, and a set of XOR gates arranged to match an encoding path in an associated convolutional encoder, and a selector arranged to feed an ...