US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 2 for "Shared phase shifter radio architecture" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,107, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Shared phase shifter radio architecture" was invented by Abdellatif Bellaouar (Richardson, Texas), Chirag Dipak Patel (San Diego), Kevin Hsi-Huai Wang (San Diego), Rajagopalan Rangarajan (San Diego), Gurkanwal Singh Sahota (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Arul Balasubramaniyan (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase shifter for a millimeter wave (mmW) communication system including an in phase variable gain amplifier (I VGA) and a quadrature VGA (Q VGA) configured to receive radio frequency (RF) signals, the I VGA and the Q VGA configured to provide a selecta...