US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 16 for "Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding of low density parity check codes" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,313, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding of low density parity check codes" was invented by Hong-sil Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Se-ho Myung (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kyung-joong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding apparatus is provided. The encoding includes a low density parity check (LDPC) encoder which performs LDPC encoding on input bits based on a parity-check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword formed of 64,800 bits, in which the parity-check matrix includes an information word sub-matr...