ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,993, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wireless circuitry with delay measurement and tuning" was invented by Stephan Henzler (Munich), Nicholas Preyss (Oberhaching, Germany), Jochen Schrattenecker (Alberndorf in der Riedmark, Austria), Andreas Langer (Munich), Alexander Klinkan (Linz, Austria), Christoph Hepp (Munich) and Christoph Angerer (Sierning, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless circuitry can include a processor that generates a baseband signal, an upconversion circuit that upconverts the baseband signals to a radio-frequency signal, and an amplifier that amplifies the radio-freque...