ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,675, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Synchronization for OFDM-based over-the-air aggregation" was invented by Huayan Guo (New Territories, Hong Kong), Yifan Zhu (New Territories, Hong Kong), Haoyu Ma (New Territories, Hong Kong), Vincent Kin Nang Lau (Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong) and Kaibin Huang (New Territories, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive respective data from respective sensors, wherein the respective data represents respective gradient values for a neural network produced...