ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,354, issued on March 18, was assigned to GIAX GMBH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for detecting group delay information and apparatus and method for transmitting a measurement signal via a transmission medium" was invented by Jorg Hellwig (Menden, Germany), Andreas Blohmann (Lauf, Germany) and Holger Stadali (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for detecting group delay information over frequency for a transmission medium has: a receiver for receiving a measurement signal, the measurement signal comprising at least a first carrier signal at a first carrier frequency, a second carrier signal at a...