ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,089, issued on June 3, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Module conductive shield including discontinuities to reduce device coupling" was invented by Loizos Loizou (Grasbrunn, Germany), Domingo Farias (Methuen, Mass.), Vincenzo DiTommaso (Portland, Ore.) and Jean Briot (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module includes discontinuities, such as openings or slots, between regions of a conductive shield that correspond to circuits on a substrate. The discontinuities are provided to perturb current flow between the regions to reduce coupling between the circuits. The circuits may be transmit (TX) circuits ...