ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,392, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Pulse-shaping filters for improving the spectral efficiency of broadband satellite systems" was invented by Rohit Iyer Seshadri (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Bassel F. Beidas (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for generating and implementing pulse-shaping filters for efficient utilization of limited spectral resources in wireless communication systems. Wireless communication systems operating at high spectral efficiency conventionally use pulse shaping filters that rely on Nyquist waveforms for good main lob...