ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,691, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Constellation shaping configuration and feedback" was invented by Liangming Wu (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Jian Li (Shanghai), Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Kexin Xiao (Shanghai) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a configuration indicating a set of encoding parameters corresponding to a constellation shaping encoding process. The UE may calculate a number of bits of a first subset of a source bit stream, and the first subs...