ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,363, issued on May 27, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Apparatus for receiver with carrier frequency offset correction using frequency information and associated methods" was invented by Antonio Torrini (Austin, Texas), Hendricus de Ruijter (Austin, Texas), Yan Zhou (Spicewood, Texas) and David Trager (Buda, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a radio-frequency (RF) receiver for receiving an RF signal using a plurality of antennas. The RF receiver includes a demodulator to provide a switch signal to cause the RF receiver to use an antenna in the plurality of antennas. The RF receiver...