ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,573, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Daisaku Ogasahara (Tokyo) and Masaaki Tanio (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing apparatus includes: a distribution unit that divides an input signal into input signal blocks, and distributes, in dividing order, the divided input signal blocks to delta-sigma modulation circuits; a parallel circuit unit including the delta-sigma modulation circuits that perform delta-sigma modulation on the input signal blocks and output output signal blocks; and a coupling unit that cou...