ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,326, issued on July 29, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Non-linear precoding for maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) receiver" was invented by Ramin Babaee (Ottawa) and Shahab Oveis Gharan (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a data signal that includes a stream of symbols, modifying the data signal, resulting in a modified data signal, such that there is inter-symbol interference (ISI) when the modified data signal is received by a receiver, and transmitting the modified data signal over a channel to the receiver, wherein the ISI is distin...