ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,873, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Pilot symbol transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Fan Wei (Shenzhen, China) and Lei Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application relate to the field of wireless communication technologies, including the field of Wi-Fi technologies, and provide a pilot symbol transmission method and an apparatus, to reduce a possibility that pilots sent by different users in a network collide. In the method, a terminal device may send a codeword, and the codeword may include a pilot symbol and a data symbol. The pilot ...