ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,550, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced bit mapping and encoding schemes" was invented by Kanke Wu (San Diego), Jialing Li Chen (San Diego) and Bin Tian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. An encoding device may obtain a first set of coded bits by encoding multiple sets of information bits in accordance with a parallel encoding scheme. The encoding device may obtain a second set of coded bits by using some or all of the first set of coded bits to encode a second set of information bits in accordance with a concatenated enc...