ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,354, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"System architecture of network coding at user plane function" was invented by Hyun Yong Lee (San Diego), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego), Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (San Diego), Dario Serafino Tonesi (San Diego), Miguel Griot (La Jolla, Calif.), Yih-Hao Lin (San Diego), Sanket Sanjay Kalamkar (San Diego), Mickael Mondet (Louannec, France) and Diana Maamari (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus may be configured to generate, for a set of data packets associated with an application, a set of parity bits, generate an encoded data transmission assoc...