ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,193, issued on April 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Raptor code feedback" was invented by Kangqi Liu (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Jian Li (Beijing), Liangming Wu (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An encoding device may encode a set of source symbols using one or more raptor codes to generate a first set of encoded symbols and may transmit the first set of encoded symbols to a decoding device. The decoding device may successfully recover a source symbol of the set of source symbols from the first set of encoded sym...