ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,403, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Amplifier for extended spectrum DOCSIS" was invented by David B. Bowler (Stow, Mass.), Jeffrey A. Boast (Colmar, Pa.), Michael R. Morisseau (Lowell, Mass.), Samuel D. Francois (Lowell, Mass.) and Brent D. Arnold (Doylestown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for amplifying signals propagated along a span of cable that imposes a loss tilt, and such that the loss tilt is canceled so as to provide unity gain, by modulating amplification as a function of frequency of an amplifier adjacent the span."

The patent was filed on Jan. 26, 2024, un...