ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,798, issued on June 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Devices and methods for flexible channel measurement using splicing" was invented by Yanchun Li (Wuhan, China), Ganghua Yang (Shanghai) and Merouane Debbah (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmitter is configured to generate a first pilot signal having a first signal strength profile over a first plurality of frequency sub-bands and a second pilot signal having a second signal strength profile over a second plurality of frequency sub-bands and to transmit the first pilot signal and the second pilot signal ...