ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,958, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Securing polar codes" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are provided which allow a first device to secure transmission of polar encoded control information by encoding at least a portion of frozen bits and/or information bits with a shared key with a second device before these bits are encoded by a polar encoder. The first device determines whether to encode at least one of a plurality of frozen bits or a plurality of information bits using the shared key. Based on the determination, the firs...