ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,277, issued on June 10, was assigned to Airbus (S.A.S.) (Blagnac, France).

"Method and system for estimating a transmission channel of a communication link" was invented by Thomas Meyerhoff (Hamburg, Germany), Martin Kasparick (Blagnac, France) and Dennis Wieruch (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for estimating a transmission channel of a communication link. A transmitter can transmit a first transmission signal and a receiver can receive the first transmission signal through the transmission channel. The first transmission signal includes data elements and pilots, each of the pilots being located ...