ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,670, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Probabilistic amplitude shaping" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego), Dung Ngoc Doan (San Diego), Jialing Li Chen (San Diego) and Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee (Tull en 't Wall, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for encoding data for wireless communication to achieve a desired amplitude distribution. Some implementations more specifically relate to performing an encoding operation to shape the amplitudes of the resultant symbols such that the amplitudes have a non-uniform distri...