US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 25 for "Harmonic-enhanced identification (ID) and device resolution for frequency modulating communication" (Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,877, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Harmonic-enhanced identification (ID) and device resolution for frequency modulating communication" was invented by Vaishnavi Nattar Ranganathan (Woodinville, Wash.), Jonathan Bernard Lester (Bellevue, Wash.), Jingxian Wang (Pittsburgh) and Paramvir Bahl (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The devices and methods leverage harmonics to resolve, separate, and identify devices. The devices and methods use the harmonic patterns associated with a frequency modulating (FM) signal to discern and extract information from the FM signal us...