ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,351, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Code block segmentation and configuration for concatenated turbo and RS coding" was invented by June Chul Roh (Allen, Texas) and Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing code block segmentation for wireless transmission using concatenated forward error correction encoding includes receiving a transport block of data for transmission having a transport block size, along with one or more parameters that define a target code rate. A number N of inner code blocks needed to transmit the transport block is determined. A ...