ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,217, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Time actuated triggers for a radio frequency front end" was invented by Lalan Jee Mishra (Escondido, Calif.), Umesh Srikantiah (San Diego) and Richard Dominic Wietfeldt (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiving device, comprising: a clock generator circuit configured to generate a base clock signal; a counter configured to count cycles or edges of the base clock signal while a measurement pulse is received over a one-wire serial bus during a first transaction conducted over the one-wire serial bus, the measurement pulse having a pulse duration defined by ...