US Patent Issued to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Polar decoder and associated method" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,747, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal).

"Polar decoder and associated method" was invented by Huayi Zhou (Montreal), Ryan Meng Yong Seah (Montreal), Marwan Jalaleddine (Montreal) and Warren Jeffrey Gross (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimization-based decoder with improved performance and cyclic redundancy check is provided. An optimization problem is generated and solved. The optimization problem includes a function implementing constraints on variables. Main variables correspond to nodes of the encoding graph, including input variables ...