ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,174, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Spectrum shaping and subband spectrum shaping for tight spectrum confinement and transceiver structure" was invented by Jing Jiang (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Lei Xiao (San Jose, Calif.), Vinayak Suresh (San Diego) and Jae Won Yoo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may filter data tones (e.g., in edge subbands of an allocated frequency band) to achieve time domain windowing or shaping. Data tones of edge subbands of a configured frequency band ma...