US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on May 20 for "Non-coherent DSSS demodulator with fast signal arrival detection and improved timing and frequency offset estimation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,016, issued on May 20, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Non-coherent DSSS demodulator with fast signal arrival detection and improved timing and frequency offset estimation" was invented by Wentao Li (Austin, Texas), Yan Zhou (Spicewood, Texas) and Terry Lee Dickey (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver includes a demodulator having a configurable correlator bank that helps with fast and robust signal detection. The demodulator detects arrival of a first preamble symbol using a first correlator bank configuration. The demodulator makes a course coarse frequency offset estimation afte...