ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,934, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Processing of communications signals using machine learning" was invented by Timothy James O'Shea (Arlington, Va.) and Thomas Charles Clancy III (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more processors control processing of radio frequency (RF) signals using a machine-learning network. The one or more processors receive as input, to a radio communications apparatus, a first representation of an RF signal, which is processed using one or more radio stages, providing a second representation of the RF signal. Observations abo...