ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,652, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing system, a de-noising method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a de-noising program" was invented by Ankith Vinayachandran (Tokyo), Shinsuke Fujisawa (Tokyo), Naoto Ishii (Tokyo) and Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a signal processing system for an optical communication system including an optical transmitter and an optical receiver. The signal processing system is configured to: identify a distortion of input signals from an optical receiver in an unsupervised manner t...