US Patent Issued to Saturn Licensing on June 17 for "Coding and modulation apparatus using non-uniform constellation" (German, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,083, issued on June 17, was assigned to Saturn Licensing LLC (New York).

"Coding and modulation apparatus using non-uniform constellation" was invented by Nabil Loghin (Freiburg, Germany), Lothar Stadelmeier (Stuttgart, Germany), Jan Zoellner (Braunschweig, Germany) and Yuji Shinohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constella...