ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,493, issued on July 8, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal converting apparatus and signal converting method" was invented by Akihiro Tanabe (Musashino, Japan), Toshiaki Shitaba (Musashino, Japan), Yoichi Fukada (Musashino, Japan) and Tomoaki Yoshida (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal converting apparatus includes a conversion unit, a measurement unit, and a control unit. The conversion unit performs FM batch conversion on an input signal containing a plurality of carrier signals, to generate an FM signal. The measurement unit measures the carrier levels of the plurality of carr...