ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,676, issued on March 18, was assigned to SureWave Technology Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Signal processing systems and methods" was invented by Philip Shaw (Wheelock, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noise reduction system for a digital receiver reduces noise in signals received at the digital receiver. The digital receiver includes an input for receiving an analogue signal, analogue signal processing circuitry for processing an analogue signal, and an output for providing the processed signal to a digital signal processor. The noise reduction system is located between the input and the digital receiver input, and includes ...