ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,040, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Advantest Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing apparatus for generating a plurality of output samples using combiner logic based on a hiearchical tree structure" was invented by Christian Volmer (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a digital signal processing apparatus including a combiner logic and a plurality of processing cores. Input samples of the digital signal processing apparatus are provided to the plurality of processing cores. Sets of output samples of the processing cores are provided to the combiner logic as input samples, a...