ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,601, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Quantized orthogonal modulation" was invented by Mohamed Fouad Ahmed Marzban (San Diego), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego), Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to quantized orthogonal modulation for non-coherent over-the-air (OTA) federated learning (FL). In some examples, a wireless device may compare a gradient to a threshold value to determine whether the gradient satisfies a threshold condition. The wireless device may al...