ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,068, issued on June 16, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus, transmission system, receiving method and transmitting method" was invented by Takahiro Suzuki (Musashino, Japan) and Sang-Yuep Kim (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reception device includes a reception unit that receives a signal obtained by polarization multiplexing of an X polarized wave and a Y polarized wave, converts a received signal into a received signal corresponding to each of the X polarized wave and the Y polarized wave, and outputs the received signal, a first signal decoding unit that decodes one se...