ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,016, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatuses for use in tuning reactance in a circuit device" was invented by Ronald Eugene Reedy (San Diego), Dan William Nobbe (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Tero Tapio Ranta (San Diego), Cheryl V. Liss (Merrimack, N.H.) and David Kovac (Arlington Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for use in tuning reactance are described. Open loop and closed loop control for tuning of reactances are also described. Tunable inductors and/or tunable capacitors may be used in filters, resonant circuits, matching networks, and phase shifters. Abil...