US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 19 for "Methods and circuitry for reducing mixer harmonics conversion gain and local oscillator fundamental and harmonics feedthrough" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,126, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and circuitry for reducing mixer harmonics conversion gain and local oscillator fundamental and harmonics feedthrough" was invented by Omar E Elaasar (San Diego), Shan He (Austin, Texas), Gang Zhang (Austin, Texas) and Anandaroop Chakrabarti (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mixer circuitry can include a first pair of transistors coupled to a first tail node and configured to receive a local oscillator signal, a second pair of transistors coupled to a second tail node and configured to receive the local oscillator signal, a first digital-t...