ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,622, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cyclic redundancy check for staircase decoding procedures" was invented by Jian Li (Shanghai), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Kexin Xiao (Shanghai), Wei Liu (Beijing), Ruiming Zheng (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. A receiving device may receive an encoded signal including a set of information blocks. Each information block may include a set of encoded information bits and a set of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits. The receivin...