US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 27 for "Phase shifter with periodic cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,756, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Phase shifter with periodic cells" was invented by Tarek Khedr Abdalla Mealy (San Diego), Nitesh Singhal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Abbas Komijani (Mountain View, Calif.), Zhengan Yang (Del Mar, Calif.), Hideya Oshima (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xiaoqiang Li (San Diego) and Zhang Jin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase shifter circuit may include a multiple phase shifter cells (or cells) to selectively shift a phase of an input signal by a desired phase shift value. For example, each of the phase shifter cells may shift the phase of the input signal by a po...