ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,104, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Phased array transmitter" was invented by Muhammad Hassan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase shifter including a quadrature generator configured to generate an in phase (I) signal and a quadrature (Q) signal from an input signal; an in phase vector modulator (VM_I) configured to receive the I signal and a quadrature vector modulator (VM_Q) configured to receive the Q signal; and an auxiliary VM_I connected to the VM_I and an auxiliary VM_Q connected to the VM_Q, the auxiliary VM_I configured to receive the I signal, the auxiliary VM_Q configured to recei...