ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,554, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Supply modulator and wireless communication apparatus including the same" was invented by Dongsu Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Junsuk Bang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supply modulator includes a linear regulator that generates an output voltage in an envelope tracking mode. A switching regulator operates with the linear regulator to generate the output voltage in the envelope tracking mode and to selectively generate the output voltage in an average power tracking mode. A single inductor multiple output c...