US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 16 for "Probabilistic shaping for retransmissions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,077, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Probabilistic shaping for retransmissions" was invented by Pinar Sen (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (e.g., a transmitter) may transmit a message and one or more retransmissions of the message in a wireless communication network. The message may include a codeword that includes information bits and error correction bits (e.g., parity bits). The one or more retransmissions may include error correction bits associated with the information bits. To improve the decoding performance at a receiver, the...