ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,290, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and receiving apparatus" was invented by Shinichi Tanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technique pertains to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a receiving apparatus that enable gain control to be appropriately performed on various interfering signals.An amplifier controls a gain according to a count value to amplify a signal, and a comparator compares the signal outputted by the amplifier with the count value. An accumulator coun...