ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,819, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Tektronix Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Ultra-wideband signal generator with low phase noise" was invented by Alexander Krauska (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveform generator includes a carrier band generator to produce a carrier signal, one or more selectable frequency multipliers to receive the carrier signal and to output a selected carrier signal having a frequency of a multiple of the carrier signal, at least two main digital-to-analog converters (DACs), each main DAC to receive a digital in-phase (I) or quadrature (Q) signals, and to convert the digital I and Q signals to a...