ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,708, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for measuring radio frequency phase shift of an inline device" was invented by Igal Kotzer (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A testing device includes an oscillator circuit with an inline device. The oscillator circuit includes a loop having a variable gain amplifier and a variable feedback block. The inline device is installed between the variable gain amplifier and the variable feedback block. An output of the variable feedback block is input to the variable gain amplifier. A processor varies a phase of the var...