ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,782, issued on July 7.

"Streaming and normalization for asymmetric numeral system-based probabilistic shaping" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a first device may generate and transmit multiple shaped symbols based on a state for each shaped symbol. To generate each shaped symbol, the first device may normalize the state for each symbol in accordance with a range interval. If the state is outside the range interval, the first device may receive and convert bits from a bit buffer to gen...