ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,451, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Constellation shaping-related coding selection" was invented by Liangming Wu (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Jian Li (Shanghai), Ruiming Zheng (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing) and Ori Shental (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication utilizing a modulation and coding scheme that selectively or dynamically applies probabilistically-shaped coding (PCS) to modulate a transmitted waveform. A communication device may determine whether to apply PCS. If PCS is to be applied, the device can...