ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,116, issued on July 29, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Frontend circuit, frontend module, communication apparatus, and multiplexer" was invented by Hiroyuki Nagamori (Kyoto, Japan), Akio Kaneda (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroshi Muranaka (Kyoto, Japan), Hideki Tsukamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Daisuke Ito (Kyoto, Japan), Kiwamu Sakano (Kyoto, Japan) and Daisuke Miyazaki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frontend circuit includes a wide-band filter, a transmit filter, and switches. The wide-band filter passes both the receive frequency band of a first communication frequency band that of a second communicatio...