US Patent Issued to University of Washington, The Regents of the University of Michigan, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Sept. 16 for "Non-linear encoding and decoding for reliable wireless communication" (Washington, Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,374, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle), The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Non-linear encoding and decoding for reliable wireless communication" was invented by Sewoong Oh (Seattle), Xiyang Liu (Seattle), Hessam Mahdavifar (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mohammad Vahid Jamali (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Pramod Viswanath (Champaign, Ill.) and Ashok Makkuva (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a set of information bits to produce a codeword that encodes the set of information bits for reli...