US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Feb. 24 for "Wi-fi/Bluetooth antenna disconnect detection" (American, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,779, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wi-fi/Bluetooth antenna disconnect detection" was invented by Igor Kolych (Lviv, Ukraine), Kiran Uln (Pleasanton, Calif.), Kameswara Medapalli (Saratoga, Calif.) and Sivaram Alukuru Trikutam (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments described herein are directed at techniques to perform antenna/cable disconnection using co-located communication devices. A first device may transmit a reference signal over a predetermined bandwidth. A parasitic signal corresponding to the reference signal may be received via coupling at ...