ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,637, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for measuring and cancelling local oscillator feedthrough using an observation receiver" was invented by Kameran Azadet (San Ramon, Calif.) and Marc Jan Georges Tiebout (Finkenstein, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for cancelling local oscillator feedthrough (LOFT). A transmitter includes a first mixer configured to mix a transmit signal with a first local oscillator signal. An observation receiver receives a fraction of a power of the transmit signal as a feedback signal and processes the feedback signal. ...