ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,210, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Power efficient receiver architecture" was invented by Siraj Akhtar (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power efficient receiver architectures are described. A receiver includes a first receiver path having a low power consumption compared to a second receiver path with a higher power consumption but a better ability to remove blocking signals. A multiplexer at the output of both receiver paths is used to select the digital bit stream from either the first path or the second path based on whichever path is currently enabled. The first receiver pat...