ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,720, issued on July 15, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Single filter with two passbands" was invented by Patrick Marcus Naraine (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Satoru Ikeuchi (Ashiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure relate to a radio frequency filter with two pass bands. The RF filter employs a first RF bandpass filter coupled to a common RF input and a common RF output. The RF filter further employs a second RF bandpass filter coupled to the common RF input and the common RF output. A first RF pass band of the first RF bandpass filter and a second RF pass band of the RF second bandp...