ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,225, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Active power splitter and combiner circuitry" was invented by Muhammad Adnan (San Jose, Calif.), Abdulrahman A Alhamed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Xiang Guan (Saratoga, Calif.) and Frederic Bossu (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having active circuitry such as active power splitter circuitry and active power combiner circuitry. The active power splitter and combiner circuitry can include single-ended or differential amplifiers coupled to one another using single-ended coupled lines or differential...