ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,691, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-level coding and bit-interleaved coded modulation" was invented by Peer Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit capability information indicating that the UE is configured to perform multi-level coding (MLC) decoding for one or more bits of a plurality of constellation bits. The UE may receive, in accordance with the capabilit...