ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,635, issued on March 25, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Filter reuse in radio frequency front-ends" was invented by Lup Meng Loh (Plano, Texas), Aleksey A. Lyalin (Moorpark, Calif.), David Richard Pehlke (Westlake Village, Calif.), Anand Raghavan (Middleton, Wis.) and Jin Hoon Cho (Newbury Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radio frequency front-end systems with filter reuse. In certain embodiments, a front-end system includes a filter, a low noise amplifier (LNA), and a switch interposed between the filter and an input to the LNA. In a first state of the switch, the filter serves to filter a rad...