ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,668, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Front end architecture for selectively adding external carrier aggregation band" was invented by Jen-Chien Chang (Irvine, Calif.), Reza Kasnavi (Solana Beach, Calif.), Roman Zbigniew Arkiszewski (Oak Ridge, N.C.), Jeffrey Gordon Strahler (Greensboro, N.C.) and John G. Freed (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure relate to a front end architecture for selectively adding an external carrier aggregation band. A switch element can connect a radio frequency signal path to an antenna path through a frequency domain multiplexer...