US Patent Issued to iBiquity Digital on Sept. 22 for "Opportunistic muting of all-digital stations during noisy acquisition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,610, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to iBiquity Digital Corp. (Columbia, Md.).

"Opportunistic muting of all-digital stations during noisy acquisition" was invented by Eugene Parrella (Calabasas, Calif.) and Robert Saizan (Calabasas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a radio receiver comprises: receiving digital radio broadcast (DRB) signals on respective frequency channels: acquiring a list that identifies which of the DRB signals are all-digital signals: receiving a tune command to tune to a particular DRB signal among the DRB signals; and upon determining that the particular DRB signal is an all-digital...