ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,407, issued on July 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Timing detection method, communication system and receiving apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Fukumoto (Musashino, Japan), Seiji Omori (Musashino, Japan), Yosuke Fujino (Musashino, Japan), Miharu Oiwa (Musashino, Japan), Ryota Okumura (Musashino, Japan) and Yuya Ito (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transmission apparatus intermittently transmits a physical frame of a transmitted signal. The receiving apparatus includes a correlation calculation unit and a determination unit. The correlation calculation unit calculates a correlation between the received s...