ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,479, issued on May 27, was assigned to VR UNIBLOCK INC. (San Francisco).

"Calculation of the metric for selecting the type of modulation in subcarriers for an OFDM signal" was invented by Abylay Sargaskayev (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Konstantin Tiutin (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Denis Kazimirov (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Andrey Vasilchenko (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Ilya Rubanov (Almaty, Kazakhstan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining complex pilot data in a frame from a sequence signal, determining an estimate of a Doppler shift from a cyclic prefix and a cyclic postfix of the frame, performing time-domain processing of an ampli...