ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,446, issued on March 4, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ) (Stockholm).

"Transform for communication symbols" was invented by Miguel Lopez (Aachen, Germany) and Leif Wilhelmsson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for transferring data symbols between a transmitter and a receiver. The method comprises specifying communication symbols through application of a transform to a representation of the data symbols, and conveying a signal indicative of the communication symbols from the transmitter to the receiver. When expressed as a transform matrix, the transform has at least the followin...