ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,733, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Communication techniques with self-decodable redundancy versions (RVs) using systematic codes" was invented by Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego), Shrinivas Kudekar (Raritan, N.J.), Thomas Richardson (South Orange, N.J.), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Hari Sankar (San Diego) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides self-decodable redundancy versions for a systematic code. An apparatus for wireless communications includes at least one processor coupled with a memory and comprising encoder circuitry configured to encode a set...