ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,478, issued on March 25, was assigned to Spirent Communications PLC (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Injecting an arbitrary IQ stream into a test environment" was invented by Felix Michael Krefft (Paignton, Great Britain), Stephen Nigel Beales (Paignton, Great Britain) and Mark Geoffrey Holbrow (Paignton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is incorporating an IQ stream into a test signal for a receiver in motion, configuring a path for the motion of the receiver during simulation, a period of the simulation, a transmitter constellation to emulate, and a path of at least one IQ stream transmitter. Also generating signal...