ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,331, issued on July 29, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Techniques for reception of scalable sweep wide area modulation communications" was invented by Fabrice Christophe Olivier Portier (Thorigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an apparatus comprises: a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit to receive and process an RF signal comprising a packet, the RF front end circuit to output a digital signal comprising the packet; and a baseband circuit coupled to the RF front end circuit. The baseband circuit may comprise: a demodulator to receive the digital signal comprising a plurality of ...