ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,854, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for signaling symbol format for guard interval based waveforms" was invented by Iyab Issam Sakhnini (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Morteza Soltani (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Jun Ma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for indication of one or more symbol structures for one or multiple subsets of a set of symbols. The one or more symbol structures may include one or more guard interval (GI)-based symbol formats that are to be applied to one ...