ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,358, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Frequency-based predistortion signal generation" was invented by Pushkar Bajirao Kulkarni (San Diego), Joseph Patrick Burke (San Diego), Cong Nguyen (San Diego), Sanghoon Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim (San Diego) and Igor Gutman (Hod HaSharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed for frequency-based predistortion signal generation. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes a predistortion linearizer circuit configured to be coupled to an input of an amplifier. The amplifier has non-linearities associate...