ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,496, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Impulse noise mitigation in communication systems" was invented by Ahmed Badawy (Kanata, Canada), Khaled Yousef (Solna, Sweden) and Ping Liu (Nepean, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, network node and wireless device (WD) for suppressing impulsive noise are provided. According to one aspect, a method includes determining a moving difference of successive samples of a received signal, comparing the moving difference to a threshold, and setting the successive samples to a predetermined value when the moving difference exceeds the ...