ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,734, issued on March 31, was assigned to Orbital Research Ltd. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Low noise block-downconverter system with local oscillator module" was invented by Serguei Khoudiakov (Hope, Canada), Alexei Gouterman (Richmond, Canada) and Mehdi Rezvani Abkenari (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low noise block-downconverter system (LNB system) includes a local oscillator module having first and second phase locked loop circuitry (PLL circuitry) for downconverting an electrical signal to generate a downconverted signal. The first PLL circuitry receives a low-frequency reference signal that is used with an intermed...