ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,899, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Transconductor with current limiter" was invented by Mark Ferriss (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Lorenzo Iotti (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Alexander Rylyakov (Staten Island, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, such as a coherent optical receiver, includes a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) with differential outputs, and a multi-tanh type current limiter connected across the differential outputs of the transimpedance amplifier. The multi-tanh type current limiter includes two tanh-type current limiters shifted in voltage and connected to subtract an ...