ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,560, issued on July 8, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).
"Method for transmitting data with variable puncturing within a constellation symbol" was invented by Isabelle Siaud (Chatillon, France) and Anne-Marie Ulmer-Moll (Chatillon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method implemented by a first item of telecommunication equipment transmitting to a second item of telecommunication equipment. The method includes: encoding input data by using an encoder; puncturing data after encoding; modulating with mapping of the data, after puncturing, on one symbol among M symbols of a constellation having...