ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,156, issued on July 15, was assigned to University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu, China).

"Self-detection circuit based on power detector" was invented by Yiming Yu (Chengdu, China), Kai Kang (Chengdu, China), Chenxi Zhao (Chengdu, China), Huihua Liu (Chengdu, China) and Yunqiu Wu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a Self-detection circuit based on power detector, comprising a power detector, a coupler, a phased array transmitting channel 1 and a phased array transmitting channel 2, and the power detector is divided into two working modes of phase test and amplitude...