ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,076, issued on May 19, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for communicating information via pilot signals" was invented by Benjamin P. Smith (Ottawa) and Jamal Riani (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first communication device receives control data that are to be communicated to a transceiver of a second communication device, the control data for use by the transceiver to adjust one or more operating parameters of the transceiver. The first communication device encodes the control data on multiple pilot symbols so that each pilot symbol of the multiple pilot symbols encodes less t...