ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,056, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and transmitter for transmitting data using constellation" was invented by Vincent Corlay (Rennes, France) and Cristina Ciochina-Duchesne (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for transmitting data using a constellation with M=2m symbols, divided in N sub-constellations, N and M being integers, where for any symbol in a reference sub-constellation, there is a symbol in each of the other sub-constellations with a same probability value. The method includes obtaining from a source of data, k groups of m-log2(N) shaping bi...