ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,156, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Turbo decoder, operating method thereof, and electronic device including turbo decoder" was invented by Joohan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hoil Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbo decoder includes a first soft input soft output (SISO) decoder configured to receive systematic information, first parity information, and a first pre-log likelihood ratio (LLR), and to output a first parity LLR obtained by calculating an LLR for the first parity information, a first interleaver configured to interleave the system...