ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,179, issued on June 3, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Configurable radio transceiver and method thereof" was invented by Ahmed Kord (San Diego) and Chia-Liang (Leon) Lin (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) includes a transmitter, a receiver, a first pin electrically shorted to a first node wherein the transmitter and the receiver are connected, and a second pin electrically shorted to a second node within the receiver. The RFIC is soldered on a printed circuit board (PCB). In a transmitter-receiver co-share configuration, the first pin is terminat...