ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,903, issued on May 20, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Time coding for data communication" was invented by Timo Tero Joonas Hussa (Haapavesi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments provide a system for transmission of low power signals based on using transmission time as one coding parameter. A code table may be used at a transmitter and receiver to map different data to different transmission times and/or other parameters. Advantageously, large amount of information may be transmitted with short and power efficient signals, for example to report status of a sensor every now and th...