ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,017, issued on May 20, was assigned to BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Beijing).

"Signal processing method and apparatus" was invented by Zhiyong Feng (Beijing), Sai Huang (Beijing), Yifan Zhao (Beijing), Qixun Zhang (Beijing) and Zhiqing Wei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal processing method and apparatus, a first device determines a target insertion position of a pilot sequence in a first frequency-domain signal based on the data bits in a first sub-data signal obtained by dividing data bits in a data signal, combines the pilot sequences with a second ...