ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,659, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-frequency band communication based on filter sharing" was invented by Saihua Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hongrui Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Sohrab Emami-Neyestanak (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for operating transceiver circuitry to transmit or receive signals on various frequency ranges. To do so, a transmitter or a receiver of the transceiver circuitry is selectively coupled to or uncoupled from an antenna of the transceiver circuitry. Additionally, radio frequency filters may be ind...