ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,858, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Reducing impedance matching components in front end architectures for multi-band transmit and receive functions" was invented by Jiunn-Sheng Guo (Eastvale, Calif.), Tianming Chen (Newbury Park, Calif.), Joji Fujiwara (Suita, Japan), Russ Alan Reisner (Oxnard, Calif.) and Nobuyuki Tsujimoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Front end architectures are described that tailor duplexer characteristics to enable the removal of many of the impedance matching components typically included in a receive signal path between an antenna and receive ampli...