ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,350, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Outer coding techniques in wireless communications" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego), Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Tingfang Ji (San Diego), Jing Jiang (San Diego) and Aziz Gholmieh (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for a transmitter (e.g., a user equipment (UE) or base station) and receiver (e.g., a UE or base station) to transmit and receive data packets that are encoded according to an outer coding technique. The outer coding t...