ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,055, issued on March 11, was assigned to CTwists LLC (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

"Apparatus and method of encoding information and symbols" was invented by Carl E Porter (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for generating a transmission wave. The apparatus includes a plurality of antennas and a plurality of signal generators. The plurality of antennas has polarization diversity. The plurality of signal generators are each coupled to one of the antennas and configured to generate a continuous twisted wave by driving each of the antennas using independent, coordinated, and distinct sinusoidal...