ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,014, issued on June 9, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Combiner/splitter" was invented by Timothy M. Gittemeier (Plano, Texas) and Michael Roberg (Evergreen, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combiner/splitter is disclosed having a first trifilar transformer having a first outer transmission element electrically connected between a first port node and a first intermediate node. A second trifilar transformer has a second outer transmission element electrically connected between the first intermediate node and a second port node. A third trifilar transformer has a third outer transmission element electrically con...