ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,816, issued on June 9, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Transmission line comprising a signal conducting layer covered by a shielding layer with a gap therein" was invented by Bo Yu (San Diego), Xuanyi Dong (Irvine, Calif.) and Bo Pan (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission line can include a first conductive line, a second conductive line, a signal line disposed between the first conductive line and the second conductive line, with a first gap between the signal line and the first conductive line, and a second gap between the signal line and the second conductive line. A first shield ca...