ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,850, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AccelerComm Ltd. (Southampton, Great Britain).
"Communication unit for soft-decision demodulation and method therefor" was invented by Robert G. Maunder (Southampton, Great Britain) and Aryan Tavakkoli (Chilworth, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication unit for performing soft-decision demodulation comprises a receiver that receives a transmitted signal having a first set of bits comprising k bits, selected from a set of 2k possible signals according to values of the k bits, and a second set of bits comprising Qm bits based on a phase rotation of the transmitted signal selec...