US Patent Issued to Constellation Designs on Nov. 18 for "Methods and apparatuses for signaling with geometric constellations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,859, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Constellation Designs LLC (Wayne, Pa.).

"Methods and apparatuses for signaling with geometric 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 capacity optimized constell...