ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,187, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Transmitter and shortening method thereof" was invented by Hong-sil Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyung-Joong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Se-ho Myung (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: an outer encoder configured to encode input bits to generate outer-encoded bits including the input bits and parity bits; a zero padder configured to generate a plurality of bit groups each of which is formed of a same number of bits, determine whether a number of the outer-encoded bit...