ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,431, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to San Diego State University Research Foundation (San Diego).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for channel estimation and data detection" was invented by Huu Ngoc Duy Nguyen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and methods for channel estimation and data detection. In one exemplary embodiment, the data is obtained in a two-phase transmission structure that alternates known data with unknown data according to a regular or otherwise pre-determined time interval. Then, the receiver iteratively updates a postulated channel, and provides a predicted channel to the next time sl...