ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,086, issued on April 29, was assigned to AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Configurable attenuator circuit and method" was invented by Mohammadreza Mehrpoo (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Frank Van der Goes (Zeist, Netherlands), Jan Mulder (Houten, Netherlands), Alireza Nilchi (Irvine, Calif.) and Sijia Wang (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are related to a device for communication. In one aspect, the device a first circuit configured to generate a signal. In one aspect, the device includes a port. In one aspect, the device includes a set of switches. Each switch of the set o...