US Patent Issued to NXP on Jan. 13 for "Phase shifter with controllable attenuation and method for controlling same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,927, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Phase shifter with controllable attenuation and method for controlling same" was invented by Adam Erik Waks (Caen, France), Olivier Tesson (Bretteville I'Orgueilleuse, France) and Olivier Crand (Parfouru sur Odon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase shifter (100) with controllable attenuation and a method for controlling the phase shifter is disclosed, the phase shifter (100) comprising a plurality of transmission line segments (120, 220) coupled in series, wherein each said transmission line segment (120, 220) comprises an attenuation circuit (130,...