US Patent Issued to iBiquity Digital on Oct. 27 for "Variable modulation intensity for layered FM HD radio service modes" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,941, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to iBiquity Digital Corp. (Columbia, Md.).

"Variable modulation intensity for layered FM HD radio service modes" was invented by Paul J. Peyla (Columbia, Md.), Jeffrey S. Baird (Columbia, Md.) and Brian W. Kroeger (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are various embodiments of a system and method for varying the modulation intensity by scaling the constellation points of hierarchically modulated advanced FM service modes in HD Radio transmission systems. These embodiments include the novel ability to adjust the performance of the base layer of a hierarchically modulated s...