ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,902, issued on May 26, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Blind Godard-based timing phase detector for T-spaced transmissions" was invented by Trong Tung Nguyen (Kanata, Canada), Tuan Vinh Tran (Kanata, Canada) and Shahab Oveis Gharan (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, from a sampling device of a receiver, samples of a signal that is received from a transmitter, and facilitating acquisition between the receiver and the transmitter by deriving, based on the samples, a phase error output for centering a sampling clock of the sampling device with respect...