US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Feb. 18 for "Integrated circuit, front-end module, and communication apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,591, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Integrated circuit, front-end module, and communication apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Nishikawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) includes a first switch, a second switch, and an amplifier electrically connected between the first switch and the second switch. An RF signal path passes through first switch, the amplifier, and the second switch in this order. The IC includes an input terminal and an output terminal that are to be connected to each other between the first switch and the amplifier or betwe...