ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,085, issued on April 1, was assigned to MagiQ Technologies Inc. (Somverville, Mass.).

"High frequency digitizer and method" was invented by Caleb Christensen (Medord, Mass.), A. Craig Beal (Stoneham, Mass.), Mark Lucas (Chelmsford, Mass.), Michael LaGasse (Newton, Mass.) and Audrius Berzanskis (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for processing a signal. The methods include supplying to a first modulator a first RF signal and a first optical signal, wherein the first modulator is configured to output a first output signal; generating a first intensity signal that is based on the first output signal, wherein the ...