ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,272, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Encoding and decoding complex data" was invented by Miguel Berg (Sollentuna, Sweden), Per Ola Borjesson (Morrum, Sweden) and Chenguang Lu (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for encoding complex data. The method includes the steps of: obtaining an input signal made up of a series of numerically represented samples; determining a time frame of the input signal to process; applying a first window function on data in the time frame, resulting in first windowed data, wherein the first window function tapers ...