ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,379, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"List decoding of polarization-adjusted convolutional codes" was invented by Hanwen Yao (San Diego), Arman Fazeli Chaghooshi (San Diego) and Alexander Vardy (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for list decoding of polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes are described. One example method for improving error correction in a decoder for data in a communication channel includes receiving a noisy codeword, the codeword having been generated using a polarization-adjusted convolutional (PA...