ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,004, issued on June 16, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Complex multiplication circuit" was invented by Hideyuki Amaya (Tokyo) and Kazutoshi Kawaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first multiplex circuit generates a first multiplex signal obtained by time-divisionally multiplexing a first real part and a first imaginary part of a first complex number. A second multiplex circuit generates a second multiplex signal obtained by time-divisionally multiplexing a second real part and a second imaginary part of a second complex number. A multiply-subtract operation circuit performs a multiply-subtract operatio...