ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,060, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Early termination of blind decoding with rateless coding" was invented by David Yunusov (Holon, Israel), Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Assaf Touboul (Netanya, Israel) and Tal Oved (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for early termination of decoding attempts, including decoding attempts associated with physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates that are encoded using a rateless code. In some aspects, a transmitt...