ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,660, issued on April 15, was assigned to Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Jiangsu, China).

"PDMA communication system based on optimal frequency-hopping patterns" was invented by Jianguo Yao (Jiangsu, China), Jun Ge (Jiangsu, China) and Ziwei Liu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a pattern division multiple access (PDMA) communication system based on optimal frequency-hopping patterns, which includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter modulates an input baseband signal into a modulated signal, and then converts the modulated signal into a signal that hops in frequency according to...