US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on May 19 for "System and method for improving transmission in satellite and low power communication networks" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,963, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"System and method for improving transmission in satellite and low power communication networks" was invented by Zhenghao Zhang (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel wireless technology, referred to as ZChirp, is proposed. ZChirp is based on the chirp modulation that has been used in the past, but with the key distinction of multiplying the chirp with a binary sequence called the Z sequence, which serves dual purposes. First, chirps multiplied with different Z sequences have very low cross-correlations,...