ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,764, issued on March 18, was assigned to Rampart Communications Inc. (Annapolis, Md.).

"Methods and apparatus for correcting timing and frequency offsets between communications receivers and transmitters" was invented by Matthew Brandon Robinson (Crownsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes receiving a signal representing a first encoded data and calculating an estimated timing offset and/or an estimated frequency offset associated with the signal. A correction of at least one of a timing offset or a frequency offset of the signal is performed based on the estimated timing offset and/or the...