US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on Sept. 9 for "Configurable correlator bank for a non-coherent DSSS demodulator" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,464, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Configurable correlator bank for a non-coherent DSSS demodulator" 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 demodulator has a correlator bank with multiple correlators. The correlator bank has multiple configurations, including a signal arrival configuration, a coarse timing configuration, and a despreading configuration. The various configurations are used to correlate function transformations of received symbols to template signals. Each correlat...