ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,710, issued on July 15, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Envelope detector and method thereof" was invented by Chia-Liang (Leon) Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of envelope detection receives an RF (radio frequency) signal comprising a first voltage and a second voltage; converts the first voltage into a first current using a first VCCS (voltage controlled current source); converts the second voltage into a second current using a second VCCS; converts a bias voltage into a third current using a third VCCS; converting an output voltage into a fourth current using a fourth VCC...