ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,657, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Capacity achieving multicarrier modulation and coding systems and methods" was invented by Rainer Strobel (Munich) and Vladimir Oksman (Morganville, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-carrier transmitter apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an outer encoder, a shell mapper and an inner encoder. The outer encoder is configured to receive a signal, perform error correction using an outer code on the received signal and generate an outer encoder signal. The shell mapper is configured to perform constellation shaping on a subset of bits from th...