ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,929, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Configurable receiver front end module having configurable detection capabilities" was invented by Thomas Edward Voor (Cedar Park, Texas), Jeffrey L. Sonntag (Greenville, S.C.), Richard Hendricks (Austin, Texas), Logan Lucas (Austin, Texas), Hendricus De Ruijter (San Jose, Calif.) and Luigi Panseri (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an apparatus includes a receive path to receive, process and output a receive radio frequency (RF) signal, the receive path comprising at least one low noise amplifier (LNA) and a plurality of s...