ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,165, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Radio-frequency circuit and communication apparatus" was invented by Hirotsugu Mori (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Satoshi Tanaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio-frequency circuit includes a filter and a band elimination filter. The filter has a pass band corresponding to a first sub-band. At least part of the first sub-band is included in a first band used for TDD communication. The band elimination filter is connected to the filter and has a first elimination band which corresponds to a second sub-band included in the firs...