ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,358, issued on March 31, was assigned to Synchrotron Research Inc. (Melbourne Beach, Fla.).

"Sparse sampling using a programmatically randomized signal modulating a carrier signal" was invented by Edward Principe (Melbourne Beach, Fla.), Andrew Stevens (Southlake, Texas), Conan Weiland (Manorville, N.Y.), Jeffrey Hagen (Independence, Minn.), Brian Kempshall (Cocoa, Fla.), Kirk Scammon (Cocoa, Fla.), Zachary Russell (Boone, N.C.), Shane Didona (Durham, N.C.), Mathieu Therezien (Vancouver, Canada) and Tomas McIntee (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a sparse sampling system having a processor and a no...