ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,893, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Multi-carrier transmission" was invented by Matthew D. Schmitt (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-carrier transmission system configured to enable variable modulation order reception is contemplated. The system may be configured to facilitate delivery of high-speed data (HSD) over frequency division duplexing (FDD) and/or time division duplexing (TDD) infrastructures to a plurality of receiving devices. Signaling used to facilitate delivery of the HSD may be selectively and dynamically modulated according to perform...