ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,793, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Generation, configuration and transmission of a chirplike signal" was invented by Yihua Ma (Shenzhen, China), Zhifeng Yuan (Shenzhen, China), Shuqiang Xia (Shenzhen, China), Guanghui Yu (Shenzhen, China), Liujun Hu (Shenzhen, China), Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhiqiang Han (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent application discloses methods, apparatus, and systems that relate generating, configuring, and transmitting a chirplike signal in communication systems. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communication includes trans...