ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,699, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich) and Diehl Metering (Ansbach, Germany).

"Detection of a pilot sequence on simple computing devices" was invented by Gerd Kilian (Erlangen, Germany), Josef Bernhard (Erlangen, Germany), Johannes Wechsler (Erlangen, Germany), Jakob KneiBl (Erlangen, Germany), Dominik Soller (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Ereth (Erlangen, Germany), Thomas Kauppert (Nuremberg, Germany), Hristo Petkov (Nuremberg, Germany) and Klaus Gottschalk (Winkelhaid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data transmitter of a digital communication syst...