ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,454, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Tektronix Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Real-equivalent-time oscilloscope" was invented by Kan Tan (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test and measurement instrument, such as an oscilloscope, having a Nyquist frequency lower than an analog bandwidth, the test and measurement instrument having an input configured to receive a signal under test having a repeating pattern, a single analog-to-digital converter configured to receive the signal under test and sample the signal under test over a plurality of repeating patterns at a sample rate, and one or more processors configured to determi...