ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,937, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan (Kyoto, Japan).

"Signal processing device and control method" was invented by Akinori Shimmyo (Hyogo, Japan), Kenji Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuya Hatooka (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A re-timer (a signal processing device) includes: a receiver that receives a signal; a transmitter that transmits the signal received by the receiver; and a controller. The receiver includes an equalizer circuit that compensates attenuation of the signal received. The transmitter includes a noise cancelling circuit that reduces noise included in a processed ...