ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,601, issued on March 17, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Control of configurable receiver front end module based at least in part on signal metric information" was invented by Thomas Edward Voor (Cedar Park, Texas), Jeffrey L. Sonntag (Greenville, S.C.), Richard Hendricks (Austin, Texas), Logan Lucas (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey Merrill (Austin, Texas), Hendricus De Ruijter (San Jose, Calif.) and Luigi Panseri (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method comprises: comparing, in a comparator, a signal level of a receive radio frequency (RF) signal to a first threshold, the receive RF ...