ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,558, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Time domain orthogonal cover coding with frequency hopping" was invented by Meng Mei (Shenzhen, China), Bo Gao (Shenzhen, China), Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Ke Yao (Shenzhen, China) and Yang Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems that enable Time Domain (TD) Orthogonal Cover Coding (OCC) on non-consecutive Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols with frequency hopping are disclosed. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communication includes configuring, by a base station, multiple freq...