ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,291, issued on May 27, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Attenuator arrangement" was invented by Gian Hoogzaad (Mook, Netherlands), Olivier Crand (Parfouru sur Odon, France), Robert Victor Buytenhuijs (Wijchen, Netherlands) and Serge Bardy (Caen, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attenuator arrangement comprising at least a first attenuation path configured to couple between a signal processing chain, SPC, and a measurement apparatus; said SPC comprising a first and second SPC terminal, said SPC configured to apply one or both of a gain and phase change on a signal passed between the SPC terminals; said measu...