US Patent Issued to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING / MCGILL UNIVERSITY on Oct. 21 for "System and method for decoding data" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,990, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING / MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal).

"System and method for decoding data" was invented by Huayi Zhou (Montreal) and Warren J. Gross (Cote-St-Luc, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding data comprises receiving a sequence of symbols from a data sender over a noisy data channel. At a first decoder, a first search for a candidate error pattern is performed, within a search region, among a plurality of candidate error patterns, and an indication of a failure of the first search is output to a second decoder when no candidate err...