US Patent Issued to Constellation Designs on April 29 for "Systems and methods for receiving data transmitted using non-uniform QAM 256 constellations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,192, issued on April 29, was assigned to Constellation Designs LLC (Wayne, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for receiving data transmitted using non-uniform QAM 256 constellations" was invented by Maged F. Barsoum (San Jose, Calif.) and Christopher R. Jones (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication systems are described that use signal constellations, which have unequally spaced (i.e. 'geometrically' shaped) points. In many embodiments, the communication systems use specific geometric constellations that are capacity optimized at a specific SNR. In addition, ranges within which the constellation points of a cap...