ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,323, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Distortion-optimized transmission in hybrid fiber coax networks" was invented by Rainer Strobel (Munich) and Thushara Hewavithana (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node circuit associated with a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network is disclosed. The node circuit includes an optimizer circuit configured to process a plurality of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values associated with a plurality of subcarriers, respectively, associated with a set of cable modem (CM) circuits coupled to the node circuit. In some embodiments, at least one subcarrier is a...