ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,542, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"System for selectively adding noise pedestal to generated signal" was invented by Andrew Ferrara (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Naveed Edalati (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference system is provided for generating a clock signal with a tunable noise pedestal for driving a signal generator. The reference system includes a reference source configured to generate a reference signal and a multiplier chain, including a noise pedestal generator. The noise pedestal generator includes a noise pedestal attenuator configured to attenuate...