ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,724, issued on April 15, was assigned to Airoha Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for estimating frequency offset through accumulating complete frequency deviation values of samples obtained from sampling frequency-modulated repetition-coded segment of packet" was invented by Jeng-Hong Chen (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Chun-Yuan Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Yun-Xuan Zhang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency offset (FO) estimation method includes: sampling a frequency-modulated repetition-coded segment of a packet to generate a plurality of samples; obtaining a frequency deviation (FD)...