ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,584, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.), The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and MOXZ GmbH (Berlin).

"Systems and methods for communicating by modulating data on zeros in the presence of channel impairments" was invented by Philipp Walk (Pasadena, Calif.), Babak Hassibi (San Marino, Calif.), Peter Jung (Berlin) and Hamid Jafarkhani (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the invention utilize modulation on zeros. Carrier frequency offsets (CFO) can result in an unknown rota...