ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,764, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and device for quantizing data representative of a radio signal received by a radio antenna of a mobile network" was invented by Alexandre Ferrieux (Chatillon, France), Fabrice Guillemin (Chatillon, France) and Veronica Karina Quintuna Rodriguez (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantizing data representative of a radio signal received by a radio antenna of a mobile network. The method includes: demodulating the radio signal received by the antenna, providing a demodulated signal; scalar quantizing each value of the demodu...