ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,798, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).
"Gate apparatus" was invented by Julius Seeger (Prien am Chiemsee, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate apparatus configured to perform an XOR operation on received input signals to provide a logical output signal, y. The apparatus includes at least one first signal input adapted to receive a first input signal; and at least one second signal input adapted to receive a second input signal. At least one of the received input signals is split into a first split signal portion fed to a photo diode to generate an electrical photocurrent supplied to a...