ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,272, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"Transmission diversity for ale networks" was invented by Mark B. Jorgenson (Kanata, Canada), Andrew Kamel (Stittsville, Canada) and Robert W. Johnson (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system for establishing connectivity in a HF ALE cellular network, stations are organized to sound each channel, synchronized to every other station in the network. All stations make identical sounding transmissions using a single address, synchronized such that the differential timing within the coverage area remains within the mobile radios' delay spread cap...