ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,224, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Spur cancellation for spur measurement" was invented by Timothy A. Monk (Hudson, N.H.) and Rajesh Thirugnanam (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spur measurement system uses a first device with a spur cancellation circuit that cancel spurs responsive to a frequency control word identifying a spurious tone of interest. A device under test generates a clock signal and supplies the clock signal to the first device through an optional divider. The spur cancellation circuit in the first device generates sine and cosine weights at the spurious to...