US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 20 for "Polar coding techniques for higher-order modulation schemes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,963, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Polar coding techniques for higher-order modulation schemes" was invented by Kirill Ivanov (La Jolla, Calif.), Wei Yang (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a transmitting device, such as a user equipment (UE) or a network entity, may encode an information bit vector into multiple code blocks using a polar code partitioned into multiple sub-blocks having a same block length in accordance with a polar transformation associa...