ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,908, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Phased array antenna architecture" was invented by Yunfei Feng (San Diego), Li Liu (San Diego), Wu-Hsin Chen (San Diego), Abdellatif Bellaouar (Richardson, Texas), Chuan Wang (San Diego), Vinod Panikkath (San Diego), Gurkanwal Singh Sahota (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Kang Yang (San Diego) and Shrenik Patel (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio system architecture includes a receiver having multiple sub arrays in a phased array, the multiple sub arrays configured to perform carrier aggregation (CA) and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) signal processing...