ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,841, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for conveying on-off keying signaling via orthogonal frequency division multiplexing waveforms" was invented by Tal Oved (Modiin, Israel), Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Oren Matsrafi (Yad Modechai, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a network entity may map on-off keying (OOK) symbols of an OOK sequence to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform including at least one OFDM symbol with a cyclic prefix. Each OOK symbol of the O...