ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,449, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"OFDM-based method and device for spreading and transmitting compressed data" was invented by Hyoungju Ji (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hoondong Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Younsun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication technique that merges IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G systems, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart building...