ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,631, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Switched diplexer for frequency separation" was invented by Ronen Kronfeld (Shoham, Israel) and Oren Ezra Avraham (Givat Shmuel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry to transmit and receive radio-frequency signals in a first communications band in a second communications band. The apparatus can further include a diplexer coupled to the radio-frequency transceiver circuitry. The diplexer can have terminals connected to a first path that conveys the radio-frequency signals in the first communicatio...