ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,108, issued on July 21, was assigned to ANRITSU Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Multiplexer, and spectrum analyzer, signal analyzer, and signal generation device using same, and multiplexer control method" was invented by Kenichi Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuji Kishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a multiplexer that can easily vary the passband without switching filters, and is adaptable to high-precision measurement, analysis, and testing of high-frequency signals with a simple and inexpensive structure, and a spectrum analyzer, signal analyzer, and signal generation device using the same, and a multiplexe...