ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,192, issued on May 5, was assigned to L3Harris Technologies Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Soft-demodulation based waveform repair for signals undergoing spectral suppression" was invented by Christian Schlegel (Park City, Utah), L. Andrew Gibson Jr. (Riverton, Utah), Evan D. Poff (Draper, Utah), Edwin R. Twitchell (Fruit Heights, Utah), David R. Keller (Herriman, Utah) and Lance Lindsay (Woods Cross, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for waveform repair. The methods comprise: receiving a signal of interest having a spectral distortion, the signal of interest having a sequence of symbols; generating an estimate for each...