ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,856, issued on July 15, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Trellis coded DFTS-OFDM" was invented by Chun-Hsuan Kuo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a transmitter. The transmitter receives a plurality of input bits. The transmitter encodes the plurality of input bits using a Trellis code to generate a plurality of output symbols. The Trellis code is configured to confine amplitude fluctuations between consecutive output symbols. The transmitter pulse shapes the output symbols in a fre...