ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,409, issued on July 7, was assigned to Qorvo Texas LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Integrated circuit and system with tracking" was invented by Saeed Farsi (San Diego), Vipul Jain (Irvine, Calif.), Zarion Jacobs (San Diego), Jonathan P. Comeau (San Diego), Shmuel Ravid (San Diego) and Hakan Coskun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beamforming IC operates in a transmit mode or a receive mode to respectively transmit and receive signals at different times. To that end, the beamforming IC has an element interface, a transmit branch configured to produce an output transmit signal through the element interface when in the transmit mode...