ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,723, issued on March 25, was assigned to CARLETON UNIVERSITY (Ontario, Canada) and UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN, SASKATOON (Saskatchewan, Canada).

"Detector for faster than nyquist transmitted data symbols" was invented by Ahmed Mohamed Ali Ibrahim (Ottawa), Ebrahim Bedeer (Saskatoon, Canada) and Halim Yanikomeroglu (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relating to estimating data symbols encoded in a received signal that has been transmitted at a faster than Nyquist rate. The present invention uses a heuristic method for non-convex problems and involves an input matrix and received samples from the received signa...