ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,054, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Symbol constellation generation apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Ankith Vinayachandran (Tokyo), Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory (Tokyo), Naoto Ishii (Tokyo) and Norifumi Kamiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A symbol constellation generation apparatus (2000) acquires specification information (10) of the optical communication system (100). The symbol constellation generation apparatus (2000) uses a first prediction model (50) to generate noise characteristics information (20) based on the specification information (10)...