ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,940, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).
"Modulation signal generation avoiding forbidden regions" was invented by Hamid Behjati Najafabadi (Los Angeles) and Benjamin Tang (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating an applicable control signal, including: a control module operable to generate a reference control signal that avoids, but is effectively within, a forbidden region by alternating the reference control signal between upper and lower levels of the forbidden region; an error determination module operable to generate an error sign...