ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,841, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MAXLINEAR ASIA SINGAPORE PRIVATE Ltd. (Singapore).

"Copper backhaul for hybrid fiber coaxial networks" was invented by Rainer Strobel (Munich) and Thushara Hewavithana (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active cable node circuit associated with a hybrid fiber coax network is disclosed. The active cable node circuit comprises an uplink transceiver circuit configured to couple to an aggregation node circuit over a first coax cable link comprising coaxial cables and receive a set of downstream data signals from the aggregation node circuit. In some embodiments, the active cable node ...