US Patent Issued to Intel on April 7 for "Circuit redundancy and wear balancing to improve circuit lifetime" (American, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,961, issued on April 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Circuit redundancy and wear balancing to improve circuit lifetime" was invented by Wayne Ballantyne (Chandler, Ariz.), Benjamin Jann (Portland, Ore.), Marco Bresciani (Villach, Austria), Wei Chen (Fremont, Calif.) and Chien-Hwa Tou (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device can include chains of circuitry, with at least one chain being a chain of transmitter circuitry to generate output radio frequency (RF) signals using baseband signals and at least one chain of receiver circuitry configured to receive RF signals. At le...