ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,546, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Modulation schemes for nonbinary polar coding" was invented by Kirill Ivanov (La Jolla, Calif.), Wei Yang (San Diego), Pinar Sen (San Diego) and Thomas Joseph Richardson (South Orange, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support modulation schemes for nonbinary polar coding. For example, the described techniques may enable a transmitting device to perform a modulation of a set of symbols (e.g., bit pairs) t...