ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,440, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to The Secretary of State for Defence (Salisbury, Great Britain).

"Improving the resolution of a continuous wavelet transform" was invented by Paul Mason (Salisbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of decoding a signal. The method includes receiving a signal (which may be an electromagnetic signal), sampling the received signal to generate an input waveform having magnitude and phase components, applying a transform operation to the input waveform to generate a first decoded signal, and outputting the first decoded signal. The transform operation includes p...