ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,336, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cohere Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Modulation and equalization in an orthonormal time-shifting communications system" was invented by Ronny Hadani (San Jose, Calif.) and Shlomo Selim Rakib (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modulating data for transmission within a communication system. The method includes establishing a time-frequency shifting matrix of dimension NxN, wherein N is greater than one. The method further includes combining the time-frequency shifting matrix with a data frame to provide an intermediate data frame. A transformed data matrix is p...