ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,146, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Bidirectional amplifier including matching circuits having symmetrical structure and communication device including the same" was invented by Sunwoo Kong (Daejeon, South Korea), Bong Hyuk Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Dong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Seunghyun Jang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seok Bong Hyun (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a bidirectional amplifier. The bidirectional amplifier includes a first matching circuit, a second matching circuit, an amplifier circuit connect...