ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,847, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Increased radio frequency front-end (RFFE) throughput using port aggregation" was invented by Lalan Jee Mishra (Escondido, Calif.), Umesh Srikantiah (San Diego), Richard Dominic Wietfeldt (San Diego) and Radu Pitigoi-Aron (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-port data communication apparatus includes a first port having a first physical interface circuit configured to couple the multi-port data communication apparatus to a first serial bus that has a first line and a second line, a second port having a second physical interface circuit configure...