ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,553, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Signal transmitters with size-reduced on-chip memory" was invented by Long Kong (Campbell, Calif.), Chia-Hsiang Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Utku Seckin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal transmitter may include a waveform synthesis circuit and a signal transmission circuit. The waveform synthesis circuit may store values of a reference waveform for a selected channel of the signal transmitter, and use the stored values to generate values of reference waveforms for one or more other channels of the signal transmitter. The waveform synth...