ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,326, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Asymmetric constellations for channel characterization" was invented by Jacob Pick (Mevaseret Zion, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Peer Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects of the systems, methods, and devices described herein, one or more asymmetric modulation constellations may be utilized. For example, a modulation constellation utilized to modulate data symbols may be asymmetric. In some approaches, an asymmetric modulation constellation may be generated by introducing a phase shift (e.g., cyclic shift, phas...