US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Jan. 13 for "Low latency digital rebroadcast of signals with FEC and interleaving" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,070, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Low latency digital rebroadcast of signals with FEC and interleaving" was invented by Mark B. Jorgenson (Kanata, Canada) and Robert W. Johnson (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio system receives a forward error correction encoded signal for retransmission. The system performs symbol detection to produce soft decisions for the encoded bits. The soft decisions are used in the generation of the rebroadcast signal prior to any deinterleaver or error correction decoding, and the rebroadcast signal is transmitted. The system may determine if sof...