ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,851, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Layered modulation communication" was invented by Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego) and Weimin Duan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network entity may encode first information using keying modulation. The first network entity may encode second information using frequency modulated continuous waveform (FMCW) modulation. The first network entity may transmit a communication that includes a first layer indicating the first information and a...