ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,929, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Taiwan).

"Transmission methods of probabilistic shaping modulation in wireless communications" was invented by Shengquan Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Jianhan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Edward Pare Jr. (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques pertaining to transmission methods of probabilistic shaping (PS) modulation in wireless communications are described. An apparatus (e.g., station (STA)) processes each subblock of a plurality of subblocks of a data unit by padding each subblock after scrambling and PS mapping each subblock to result in each subblock having...