ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,653, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Low complexity soft decision optical receiver" was invented by Rainer Strobel (Munich), Gert Schedelbeck (Munich) and Axel Geiler (Zorneding, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed for an optical receiver. The optical receiver may include an optical and digital signal processing (ODSP) device. The ODSP device may include a photodiode operable to convert an optical signal to an electrical signal; a digital signal processor operable to generate a digital signal based on the electrical signal; a quantization component operable to generate...