ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,962, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Radio-frequency modulator apparatus" was invented by Marko Pessa (Oulu, Finland) and Sami Karvonen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio-frequency modulator apparatus comprises a baseband stage, a mixer stage and a radio-frequency stage. The baseband stage comprises: an input line for receiving an input current representative of a baseband input signal, a baseband transistor that passes some or all of the input current between a first and a second terminal thereof, an electrical connection between the input line and a control termin...