ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,535, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Symmetrical resistive harmonic rejection mixer (HRM)" was invented by Rahul Singh (San Diego) and Mehran Bakhshiani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communications that support downconversion of signals with improved harmonic rejection. In a first aspect, an apparatus includes a first plurality of mixers with each mixer coupled to two oscillating signals that are 180 degrees apart in phase; a second plurality of mixers with each mixer coupled to two oscillating signals that are 180 degrees a...