ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,946, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Constellation Designs LLC (Wayne, Pa.).
"Methods of receiving data transmitted using non-uniform multidimensional constellation and code rate pairs" was invented by Maged F. Barsoum (San Jose, Calif.) and Christopher R. Jones (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. One embodiment is a digital communications system including a transmitter transmitting signals via a communication channel, the transm...