ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,397, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Symbol processing method and apparatus" was invented by Qianli Ma (Chengdu, China), Fengwei Liu (Chengdu, China) and Huang Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A symbol processing method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining, based on a plurality of complex-valued symbols, a first set corresponding to a first transmit symbol and a second set corresponding to a second transmit symbol; performing a copy operation on the first set and the second set, so that both the first set and the second set have a first comp...