ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,720, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus and method for channel frequency response estimation" was invented by Axel Van Damme (Loyers, Belgium), Nicolas Dupuis (Chaudfontaine, Belgium), Philippe Dierickx (Saint-Gery, Belgium) and Olivier Delaby (Loyers, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining channel response data including a first channel frequency response of a channel over a first frequency spectrum, where the first channel frequency response is generated in response to a transmission over the channel or a simulation there...