ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,630, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Phase change switch arrangement" was invented by Valentyn Solomko (Munich), Semen Syroiezhin (Erlangen, Germany), Dominik Heiss (Munich), Christian Butschkow (Munich) and Jochen Braumueller (Otterfing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase change switching device includes a substrate comprising a main surface, an RF input pad and a plurality of RF output pads disposed over the main surface, and phase change switch connections between the RF input pad and each of the RF output pads, wherein the phase change switch connections each include ...