ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,477, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA-Recherche et Developpement (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"RF receiver" was invented by Konstantinos Manetakis (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Nicola Scolari (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Fabio Epifano (Ornex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A RF transmitter includes a phase-locked loop having an oscillator arranged to output an oscillator carrier and a power amplifier arranged to conduct a power amplifier current. The RF transmitter includes a phase shifter module between the phase-locked loop and the power amplifier arranged to introduce a phas...