US Patent Issued to ARRIS Enterprises on May 27 for "Full duplex expander in a full duplex network" (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,581, issued on May 27, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Full duplex expander in a full duplex network" was invented by David B. Bowler (Stow, Mass.), Clarke V. Greene (Middletown, Conn.) and Ayham Al-Banna (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method receives a downstream signal and an upstream signal in a same frequency band. The downstream signal and the upstream signal are separated into a first path and a second path. The downstream signal using the first path and the upstream signal using the second path are amplified in an analog domain. The method isolates the downstream signa...