ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,586, issued on March 17, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method of compressed sensing and reconstruction of a spectrally-sparse signal" was invented by Mykhailo Zarudniev (Grenoble Cedex, France), Michael Pelissier (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Jorge-Luis Gulfo Monsalve (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for performing compressed sensing of a spectrally-sparse signal within a given spectral band. The received signal being mixed over a sensing frame with a pulse train scrolling with a repetition frequency linearly modulated over time with...