ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,563, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signal power splitter/combiner with resistance and impedance transformer loading" was invented by Jonghae Kim (San Diego), Sang-June Park (San Diego) and Periannan Chidambaram (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect relates to a signal power splitter/combiner including a first signal port; a first resistor; a first impedance transformer coupled in series with the first resistor between the first signal port and a first intermediate node; a second impedance transformer coupled between the first intermediate node and a second signal port; a third impedance ...