ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,433, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TP-LINK SYSTEMS INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Channel and noise estimation in wireless communication" was invented by Qiaoyang Ye (San Jose, Calif.) and Jian Gu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an receiver in wireless communication may determine whether channel smoothing should be used in channel and noise estimation. The receiver may obtain pre-smoothing channel estimation using one or more training symbols in a digital wireless frame, and obtain post-smoothing channel estimation by performing smoothing operation over the pre-smoothing channel estimation. The rec...