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by oh_sigh 2336 days ago
Does anyone have information about what the patent is for? Google search shows 500 general news articles with no specific information about the lawsuit.
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Here’s a blurb with the patent numbers. https://patentlyo.com/patent/2020/01/billion-verdict-caltech...
"Serial concatenation of interleaved convolutional codes forming turbo-like codes"
Forward error correction is a patent minefield, so instead everyone just uses Reed-fucking-Solomon.