ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,200, issued on May 5, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Signaling and padding methods for probabilistic shaping QAM transmission in wireless communications" was invented by Shengquan Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Jianhan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Edward Pare Jr. (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques pertaining to signaling and padding methods for probabilistic shaping quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) transmission in wireless communications are described. An apparatus (e.g., station (STA)) generates a packet using a probabilistic shaping (PS) 4096 quadrature amplitude modulation (4096QAM)...