ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,700, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Circuit for correcting amplitude imbalance and phase imbalance" was invented by Morteza Abbasi (Carlsbad, Calif.), Arjun Kamath (San Diego) and Tumay Kanar (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A correction circuit for correcting an amplitude imbalance and a phase imbalance between an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal, the correction circuit comprising a plurality of variable gain circuits configured to provide in-phase and quadrature signals having balanced amplitudes and balanced phases, wherein each variable gain circuit ...