ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,730, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Approximations in distribution matching procedures" was invented by Wei Liu (Beijing), Thomas Joseph Richardson (South Orange, N.J.), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may perform, on a set of information bits, a distribution matching procedure to obtain a distributed amplitude symbol sequence. In some cases, the wireless device may perform the distribution matching procedure using approximations of quantities of di...