ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,102, issued on June 3, was assigned to Renesas Design Netherlands B.V. ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands).

"Apparatus comprising a local oscillator for driving a mixer" was invented by Maryam Dodangeh (Hengelo, Netherlands), Mark Oude Alink (Delden, Netherlands) and Bram Nauta (Borne, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a local oscillator (LO) for driving a mixer, the LO being configured to oscillate at an oscillation frequency, and generate a first set of LO signals, wherein each of the first set of LO signals has a LO signal frequency equal to a first multiplication factor m multiplied by the oscillation ...