ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,670, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Pilot transmission method and device" was invented by Pu Yuan (Guangdong, China) and Dajie Jiang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a pilot transmission method and device. The method includes: inserting, by a communications device, a pilot symbol into a first data sequence to obtain a second data sequence; and transmitting, by the communications device, the second data sequence, where the second data sequence has been subjected to faster-than-Nyquist processing."

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