ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,177, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detection of LTE ENB and UE emitters using signal processing algorithms for feature recognition" was invented by Maya Mani (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Characteristics of the waveform for received signals are determined. Statistical and/or Cyclostationary Signal Processing algorithms are used on the characteristics to identify each signal as a communication signal having a particular protocol. Autocorrelation, spectral correlation, and power Cepstrum, among others, are used to identify the signal using periodic characteristics of the waveform...