ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,860, issued on June 16, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Analog predistortion (APD) for power amplifier" was invented by Baker Scott (San Jose, Calif.), George Maxim (Saratoga, Calif.) and Nadim Khlat (Cugnaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for analog predistortion (APD) in power amplifiers are disclosed. In one aspect, APD may be provided in a front-end module (FEM) of a transmitter. More specifically, the APD may include different predistortions based on where within a frequency band the signal to be distorted is operating (i.e., sub-band APD). The APD in the FEM may further be based on...