ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,163, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Tunable attenuator" was invented by Pierre Pascal Savary (Leguevin, France), Mohamad El Ozeir (Toulouse, France) and Stephane Damien Thuries (Saubens, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a tunable attenuator is provided, comprising: one or more transformer windings configured to facilitate attenuating a signal; one or more conductive loops provided underneath the transforming windings; a controller configured to control an amount of current flowing through the conductive loops, thereby providing a...