ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,331, issued on May 12, was assigned to Alcatel Lucent (Nozay, France).

"Gain adaptation for downstream vectoring systems" was invented by Jochen Maes (Veerle, Belgium), Michael Timmers (Herent, Belgium), Dirk Vanderhaegen (Wemmel, Belgium), Carl Nuzman (Union, N.J.) and Danny Van Bruyssel (Bonheiden, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes detecting an update event whereupon a precoder needs to be updated, sending signal adjustment information to a receiver remotely coupled to a subscriber line out of the plurality of subscriber lines indicative of a signal compensation factor to be...