ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,623, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for coding rate and shaping rate selection for probabilistic shaping" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may perform a probabilistic shaping procedure using a shaping rate that is selected in accordance with a rule associated with a target spectral efficiency value, a modulation order, or both. Similarly, the wireless device may perform a channel coding procedure whose coding rate is selected in accordance with...