ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,211, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Frequency mixing circuit with multi-transistor architecture" was invented by Yi-Ching Wu (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Chia-Jun Chang (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency mixing circuit includes: a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor has a control terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal. The control terminal of the first transistor is configured to receive an oscillation signal, the first terminal of the first transistor is configured to output a mixed signal, and the second terminal of the first...