ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,727, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for rate matching order for orthogonal time frequency space multiplexing" was invented by Raviteja Patchava (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Morteza Soltani (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Zhifei Fan (San Diego) and Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may generate a orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) waveform for transmission to a second wireless device. ...