ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,730, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-user interleaved frequency-division multiplexing for block transmissions" was invented by Philipp Walk (Chicago) and Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for multi-user multiplexing for block transmissions by an electronic device includes generating a user signal that includes a number of first samples in the time domain. The number of first samples are generated based on a discrete-time baseband signal and a predetermined guard period. A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) operatio...