US Patent Issued to L3Harris Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Apparatus and method for digital predistortion initialization of high-power amplifiers" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,013, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to L3Harris Technologies Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Apparatus and method for digital predistortion initialization of high-power amplifiers" was invented by Stephen A. Laraway (Kaysville, Utah) and Brent J. Berry (Mountain Green, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are provided for digital predistortion of an electrical signal to pre-compensate for nonlinear distortions in a nonlinear channel (e.g., a nonlinear channel including a high-power amplifier). The digital predistortion processor includes a nonlinear filter. Filter coefficients are determined using a modified input ...