ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,250, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Transmit-receive switch with harmonic distortion rejection and electrostatic discharge protection" was invented by Saihua Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to reducing insertion loss in a transceiver while improving an operating efficiency of the transceiver. To do so, the transceiver may include isolation circuitry with harmonic distortion rejection circuitry, an electrostatic discharge filter, an out-of-band noise filter, and/or a matching network. In particular, the harmonic distortion rejection circui...