ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,449, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for symbol time recovery using feedback loop" was invented by Yacong Ding (San Diego) and Hyukjoon Kwon (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and an apparatus are provided. A method includes generating an intermediate symbol time recovery (STR) adjustment based on a difference between an estimated first arrival path (FAP) and an FAP offset and generating an accumulated STR adjustment based on at least the intermediate STR adjustment and a feedback STR adjustment."

The patent was filed on Nov. 21, 2022, under A...