ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,148, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Acceleration of S-polar ECC throughput by scheduler" was invented by Amit Berman (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Sarit Buzaglo (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Ariel Doubchak (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of simplified successive cancellation list (SSCL) error decoding of S-polar codes includes representing an S-polar code as a perfect binary tree; providing a node v a vector Alphav(l) of soft information from a parent node; computing a vector Alphavl(l) of soft information for a left child of node v; providing node v with a vector Be...