ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,227, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmitter including selectively enabled clock source based on digital transmit data" was invented by Mu Lu (San Mateo, Calif.), Yi Zeng (San Jose, Calif.), Cheng-Han Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Ming-Tuo Chin (San Jose, Calif.), Chan Hong Park (San Jose, Calif.) and Emanuele Lopelli (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including: a clock source configured to generate a local oscillator (LO) clock signal; a radio frequency digital-to-analog converter (RF DAC) configured to generate a radio frequency (RF) signal based on a data signal and t...