ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,767, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Signal processing apparatus for use in optical communication" was invented by Artem Vitalyevich Cherenkov (Moscow), Man Zhao (Chengdu, China), Mikhail Alexandrovich Linnik (Moscow) and Yijie Wang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing apparatus includes a plurality of time-interleaving digital-to-analog converters each configured to sample a digital input signal at a preset sub-DAC sample frequency, and to generate an analog sub-DAC output signal. The signal processing apparatus includes analog multiplexer that sample...