ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,064, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Technology Innovation Institute-Sole Proprietorship LLC (Masdar, United Arab Emirates).

"Universal multi-mode underwater software defined modem" was invented by Igor V. Zhilin (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Osama M. Bushnaq (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Giulia De Masi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Enrico Natalizio (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Ian F. Akyildiz (Atlanta) and Najwa Aaraj (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software-defined modem includes a multi-mode head and a baseband unit. The multi-mode head includes a plurality of mode frontends in...