ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,635, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Configuration of aggressor integrated circuit to prevent spur interference at victim integrated circuit" was invented by Helena Deidre O'Shea (San Jose, Calif.), Ali Moaz (Bayern, Germany), Tim Schoenauer (Bavaria, Germany) and Rahmi Hezar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to identifying frequencies to be protected at a victim integrated circuit (IC) and sending protection information including the identified frequencies to an aggressor IC. The aggressor IC configures its subsystems or circuits to operate using operating frequencie...