US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 28 for "Electronic devices with adjustable received sample bit width" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,999, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with adjustable received sample bit width" was invented by Thomas Hauser (Holzkirchen, Germany), Joachim Wehinger (Munich), Michael Weber (Freising, Germany) and Andreas Augustin (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be provided with an antenna, a receiver, and baseband circuitry coupled to the receiver over a digital interface. The receiver may receive radio-frequency signals using the antenna and may generate digital in-phase and quadrature-phase (I/Q) samples from the radio-frequency signals. The I/Q samples may ha...