ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,905, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"RF circuit with balanced amplifier, receive amplifier, and output directional coupler" was invented by Xin Yang (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Mark Pieter van der Heijden (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jasper Pijl (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Zhe Chen (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Radio-Frequency (RF) circuit for an RF front-end includes a balanced amplifier with first and second amplifiers and an output directional coupler. First and second ports of the output directional coupler are coupled to outputs of the first and second amplifiers, a...