ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,487, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Transmission/reception switching circuit and wireless communication terminal" was invented by Hideshi Motoyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shota Hayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performance is improved in a wireless communication terminal in which an antenna is connected to a transmission circuit and a reception circuit. A transmission/reception switching circuit includes a first N-type transistor and a second N-type transistor. The first N-type transistor has a drain connected to the antenna and a gate to which a constant v...