ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,340, issued on Oct. 14.
"Zero-power demarcation of message start and end in 5G and 6G" was invented by David E. Newman (Poway, Calif.) and R. Kemp Massengill (Palos Verdes, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced modulation scheme for 5G and 6G is disclosed in which amplitude modulation includes a zero-power level, which is readily recognized by the receiver as a special demarcation. This can be used, for example, to unambiguously indicate the start and end of a message, such as a downlink control message, which receivers are generally stressed to detect. The zero-power level can be just one branch of a QAM symbol, or the e...