ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. RE50,973, issued on July 28, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Broadcast signal frame generation device and broadcast signal frame generation method using bootstrap including symbol for signaling BICM mode of preamble and OFDM parameter together" was invented by Sung-Ik Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae-Young Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sun-Hyoung Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Heung-Mook Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using a bootstrap including a symbol for signaling a BICM mode and OFDM parameters of a...