ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,572, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Waveform-tailored average power tracking" was invented by Xiangdong Zhang (Westford, Mass.), Ryan Scott Castro Spring (San Diego), Marco Cassia (San Diego), Yan Kit Gary Hau (Westford, Mass.), Kanan Gandhi (San Diego) and Robert Wilson (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed for waveform-tailored average power tracking. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes an amplifier, a power converter, and an average power tracking module. The amplifier is configured to amplify radio-frequency signals using a supply voltage. The radio-frequenc...