ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,545, issued on July 21, was assigned to INSTITUT MINES TELECOM (Palaiseau, France).

"Receiver, transceiver system and associated receiving method" was invented by Raphael Le Bidan (Plouzane, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The receiver includes a sampler designed to provide one or more samples (yn) per received symbol, the symbols belonging to a predefined alphabet; an equalizer designed to compute, for each received symbol, an estimate (zn) of this symbol based on a linear combination (y'n) of the samples (yn) for this symbol; and a decision module designed to determine the symbol of the alphabet closest to the estimate (zn) a...