US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 11 for "Variable low intermediate frequency (VLIF) radio architecture" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,621, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Variable low intermediate frequency (VLIF) radio architecture" was invented by Abdellatif Bellaouar (Richardson, Texas), Kevin Hsi-Huai Wang (San Diego), Gurkanwal Singh Sahota (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Rajagopalan Rangarajan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable low intermediate frequency (VLIF), millimeter wave (mmW) communication system including a millimeter-wave (mmW) integrated circuit (mmw-IC) having a receive section having a receive radio frequency (RF) conversion stage and a receive variable intermediate frequency (IF) conversion stage, t...