ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,695, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Configuring arbitrary jumps in a linear feedback shift register in wireless communications" was invented by Dinesh Dharmaraju (San Diego), Anthony Fanous (San Diego) and David Hoyle (Tideswell, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to selecting a base representation for an advance offset of a shift register sequence, generating the shift register sequence corresponding to the advance offset based at least in part on the base representation, and processing a signal based at least in part on the shift register sequence."

The pa...