ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,976, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Scrambling for probabilistic constellation schemes in wireless communications" was invented by Kexin Xiao (Shanghai), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Wei Liu (Beijing), Jian Li (Shanghai), Kangqi Liu (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for scrambling for probabilistic constellation schemes (PCSs) in wireless communications are described. In some examples, a first wireless device may scramble a set of amplitude information bits associated with a transport block for transmission to a second wireless...