ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,218, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wireless receiver circuitry with local feedback protection" was invented by Woorim Shin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Morteza Nick (San Diego) and David M Signoff (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless circuitry can have an antenna coupled to a receiving amplifier. The receiving amplifier may be coupled to a local feedback loop configured to reduce the gain of the receiving amplifier for suppressing the signal power when receiving a large input signal. The local feedback loop can include a detector and a feedback controller. The detector may have ...