ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,825, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wireless circuitry with low-noise peak detection" was invented by Shan He (Austin, Texas), Mark T Dawkins (San Jose, Calif.) and Paul-Aymeric H Fontaine (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include an antenna, a receiver, and a transmission line path that couples the antenna to the receiver. A peak detector may receive a radio-frequency signal from the transmission line path and may output a DC voltage indicative of a peak voltage level of the signal. The peak detector may include a pair of square law transistors having source-dra...