ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,636, issued on July 14, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Digital pre-distortion for RF transmitters using reconfigurable matching networks" was invented by John R. Hoversten (Arlington, Mass.), Ty Lewis (Umea, Sweden), Thomas Renstrom (Tyreso, Sweden) and Yevgeniy A. Tkachenko (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, in a radio frequency (RF) transceiver system having a transmit chain and a digital pre-distorter (DPD), a control unit includes: one or more inputs, at least one of which is connected to receive a first signal corresponding to a signal to be transmitted v...