ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,408, issued on March 18, was assigned to Imec VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Phased array transceiver element" was invented by Yang Zhang (Heverlee, Belgium), Jan Craninckx (Boutersem, Belgium), Pierre Wambacq (Groot-Bijgaarden, Belgium) and Giuseppe Gramegna (Golfe Juan, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phased array transceiver element comprises a local oscillator stage for generating beamformed in-phase and quadrature local oscillator signals, the local oscillator stage comprising a phase shifter connectable to a reference frequency source and applying a first phase shift; a primary frequency multiplier input from the phase shifte...