US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 30 for "Forward error correction encoding with reliability differentiation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,011, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Forward error correction encoding with reliability differentiation" was invented by Kanke Wu (San Diego) and Bin Tian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for forward error correction encoding and modulation with reliability differentiation. In some examples, a transmitting wireless communication device may use a concatenated encoding technique to generate a set of encoded bits that conveys both information bits of a first priority and information bits of a second priority lower than the first priority. In...