US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Sept. 2 for "Discovery signal generation and reception" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,015, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Discovery signal generation and reception" was invented by Gwenael Poitau (Montreal), Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal), Marian Rudolf (Montreal), Benoit Pelletier (Roxboro, Canada), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada) and Diana Pani (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Physical layer processing and procedures for device-to-device (D2D) discovery signal generation and transmission and scheduling of D2D discovery signals are described. Detection and measurement of a D2D discovery signal, D2D signal identity management, and monitoring by a wirel...