ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,423, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Pseudo bi-directional amplifier" was invented by Chirag Dipak Patel (San Diego), Chinmaya Mishra (San Diego), Cheng Tao (San Diego) and Muhammad Hassan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC), including a power amplifier (PA) connected to an antenna through a first electromagnetic (EM) element, the PA configured to receive a transmit signal from a second EM element, a low noise amplifier (LNA) connected to the first EM element and the second EM element, the power amplifier and the LNA comprising separate amplifier cores, ...