ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,854, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Digitally enhanced digital-to-analog converter resolution" was invented by Mohammad Honarparvar (Gatineau, Canada), Sadok Aouini (Gatineau, Canada), Jerry Yee-Tung Lam (Stittsville, Canada), Soheyl Ziabakhsh Shalmani (Kanata, Canada) and Naim Ben-Hamida (Nepean, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are apparatus and methods for digitally enhancing digital-to-analog converter (DAC) resolution. A digitally enhanced DAC includes a decoder circuit configured to convert a N-bit input data to at least N code bits, a digital enhancement circuit configured ...