ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,207, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Qorvo Texas LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Integrated circuit chips for a phased array system including programmable on-chip element swapping, channel swapping, and/or phase rotation circuitry" was invented by Lewis N. Cohen (San Diego), Robert J. McMorrow (Concord, Mass.), Jason Leo Durbin (San Diego) and Vipul Jain (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments include RF integrated circuit (RFIC) chips including programmable on-chip element swapping circuitry, channel swapping circuitry, and/or phase rotation circuitry to allow a common software implementation or parameter com...