US Patent Issued to SIRIUS XM RADIO on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for advanced OFDM triggering techniques" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,848, issued on July 14, was assigned to SIRIUS XM RADIO LLC (New York).

"Method and apparatus for advanced OFDM triggering techniques" was invented by Edward Schell (Jackson, N.J.) and Carl Scarpa (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a non-data-aided (NDA) approach to advanced OFDM timing are provided. This approach allows for accurate OFDM symbol timing and synchronization by avoiding inter-symbol interference (ISI) in multipath environments where an earliest arriving signal may not be the strongest signal. The NDA approach may rely on generating and applying a bias correction to a combined correl...