US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 15 for "Granular guard interval tuning" (American, Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,976, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Granular guard interval tuning" was invented by Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Pascal Thubert (Roquefort-les-Pins, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Granular guard interval tuning may be provided. A delay profile for a plurality of sub-bands in a serving channel may be created. Then delay spread information from at least one calibration helper device for the plurality of sub-bands in the serving channel may be received. Next, a delay spread matrix based on the del...