ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,850, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Probabilistic constellation shaping schemes for multiple layer transmissions" was invented by Kexin Xiao (Shanghai), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Yi Huang (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) scheme for multiple layer transmissions. An example method includes obtaining a configuration for performing a PCS modulation scheme, identifying a set of bits corresponding to a transport block for communication via the ...