ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,959, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive determination of constellation point usage probabilities" was invented by Aviv Regev (Tel Aviv, Israel), Elad Meir (Ramat Gan, Israel), Amit Bar-Or Tillinger (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ronen Shaked (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A request associated with probabilities of respective points of a constellation for communication of a set of data symbols using a channel may be received. The channel may be between a wireless device and ...