US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for communicating using short messages" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,361, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for communicating using short messages" was invented by Richard Wesel (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Linfang Wang (Los Angeles), Dan Song (Los Angeles) and Felipe Areces (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication systems and methods are disclosed that utilize Probability Amplitude Shaping (PAS) and Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) to transmit short block-length messages. While capacity-approaching codes, such as Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, Turbo codes, and Polar codes, can achieve data rate...