ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,973, issued on June 17, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY (Changsha, China).

"Designed method for satellite navigation signal system with mixed modulation of direct spread spectrum and frequency hopping" was invented by Wei Xiao (Changsha, China), Wenxiang Liu (Changsha, China), Feixue Wang (Changsha, China), Xiaozhou Ye (Changsha, China), Pengcheng Ma (Changsha, China), Zukun Lu (Changsha, China), Zongnan Li (Changsha, China), Guangfu Sun (Changsha, China), Xiaomei Tang (Changsha, China), Muzi Yuan (Changsha, China), Honglei Lin (Changsha, China) and Sixin Wang (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...