ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,765, issued on March 18.

"Systems and methods of probabilistic constellation shaping" was invented by Timo Pfau (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In part, the disclosure relates to a constellation shaping system that includes a plurality of encoders, wherein one or more of the plurality of encoders is associated with a priority level according to a configuration, wherein a pulse is allocated to a time slot, using an encoder based on priority level of the encoder."

The patent was filed on March 4, 2022, under Application No. 17/687,071.

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