US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Transmitter hardware sharing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,620, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmitter hardware sharing" was invented by Lai Kan Leung (San Marcos, Calif.), Bo Yang (San Diego), Osama Elhadidy (San Diego) and Chiewcharn Narathong (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for transmitting wireless signals using multiple transmit chains that share hardware components to reduce transmitter circuit area. One example transmitter circuit for wireless communications generally includes a first transmit chain and a second transmit chain. The first transmit chain and the second transmit chain share a digital-to-analo...