ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,685, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUR TECHNOLOGIE (Karlsruhe, Germany).

"Method for an arbitrary waveform measurement and a system to operate said method" was invented by Christian Koos (Siegelsbach, Germany), Dengyang Fang (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Daniel Drayss (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for detecting an electromagnetic use-signal (2401) comprising: providing an use-signal; Providing a reference signal (2201) comprising M discrete tones with Mless than=2; splitting the use-signal into N partial use-signals (2511) with Nless than=2; splitting the reference signal into N parti...