US Patent Issued to Nordic Semiconductor ASA on July 1 for "Testing RF transmitters and receivers" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,277, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Testing RF transmitters and receivers" was invented by Tor Oyvind Vedal (Trondheim, Norway), Sverre Wichlund (Trondheim, Norway) and Stein Erik Weberg (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of testing an RF transceiver circuit and an RF transceiver circuit arranged to be operable in a test mode including a transmitter circuit portion and a receiver circuit portion, the receiver circuit portion including a mixer. The method involves the transmitter circuit portion generating a modulated signal and the receiver cir...