US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 30 for "Boundary identification for probabilistic amplitude shaping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,734, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Boundary identification for probabilistic amplitude shaping" was invented by Lin Yang (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego) and Dung Ngoc Doan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for amplitude shaping encoding, and specifically, for indicating boundaries in bitstreams encoded using amplitude shaping encoding. In some aspects, a transmitting device may insert, into an bitstream to indicate a boundary, a sequence of amplitude bits not associated with any patterns of bit values in a lookup table used for the enco...