{
  "patent_number": "US 11955732",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Intel's Transceiver Chip Manages Wireless Signals",
  "original_title": "Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods",
  "summary": "Intel's 2024 patent describes a transceiver chip with patch antennas on one side and an RFIC with a protective shield on the other, designed to improve wireless communication by managing interference.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent details a transceiver, which is a device that can both send and receive radio signals. It features multiple patch antennas on one side of a substrate (think of it like a circuit board). On the other side, there's a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) that handles the signals. Crucially, a shield is placed on the same side as the RFIC to block unwanted radio and electromagnetic interference, ensuring cleaner signals. The patent also describes how connection layers within the substrate link the antennas to the RFIC, and mentions features like dual-polarized antennas and parasitic elements for better signal reception and transmission. For example, Claim 14 suggests this could be used with a touchscreen and signal processor to generate output signals for transmission based on user input.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Transceivers where the antennas and the RFIC are not on opposite sides of the substrate.",
    "Systems that do not use patch antennas.",
    "Transceivers that lack a shield to protect the RFIC from interference.",
    "Devices where the RFIC is not coupled to the antennas via redistribution layers within the substrate.",
    "Systems that do not involve downconverting RF signals to baseband signals."
  ],
  "filed": "2022-12-27",
  "granted": "2024-04-09",
  "expires": "2042-12-27",
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Intel",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/intel",
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      "name": "Hosein Nikopour",
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    {
      "name": "Oner Orhan",
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    {
      "name": "Shilpa Talwar",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Erkan Alpman",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Omer Asaf",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Kameran Azadet",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Rotem Banin",
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    {
      "name": "Miroslav Baryakh",
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    {
      "name": "Anat Bazov",
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    {
      "name": "Stefano Brenna",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Bryan K. Casper",
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    {
      "name": "Anandaroop Chakrabarti",
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    {
      "name": "Gregory Chance",
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    {
      "name": "Debabani Choudhury",
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    {
      "name": "Emanuel Cohen",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Claudio Da Silva",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Sidharth Dalmia",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/sidharth-dalmia"
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    {
      "name": "Saeid Daneshgar Asl",
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    {
      "name": "Kaushik Dasgupta",
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    {
      "name": "Kunal DATTA",
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    {
      "name": "Brandon Davis",
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    {
      "name": "Ofir Degani",
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    {
      "name": "Amr M. Fahim",
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    {
      "name": "Amit Freiman",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/amit-freiman"
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    {
      "name": "Michael Genossar",
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    {
      "name": "Eran Gerson",
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    {
      "name": "Eyal Goldberger",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/eyal-goldberger"
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    {
      "name": "Eshel Gordon",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Meir Gordon",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Josef Hagn",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/josef-hagn"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shinwon Kang",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Te Yu Kao",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/te-yu-kao"
    },
    {
      "name": "Noam Kogan",
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    {
      "name": "Mikko S. Komulainen",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/mikko-s-komulainen"
    },
    {
      "name": "Igal Yehuda Kushnir",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/igal-yehuda-kushnir"
    },
    {
      "name": "Saku Lahti",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/saku-lahti"
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    {
      "name": "Mikko M. Lampinen",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Naftali Landsberg",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/naftali-landsberg"
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    {
      "name": "Wook Bong Lee",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/wook-bong-lee"
    },
    {
      "name": "Run Levinger",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/run-levinger"
    },
    {
      "name": "Albert Molina",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/albert-molina"
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    {
      "name": "Resti Montoya Moreno",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/resti-montoya-moreno"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tawfiq Musah",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/tawfiq-musah"
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    {
      "name": "Nathan G. Narevsky",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/nathan-g-narevsky"
    },
    {
      "name": "Georgios Palaskas",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/georgios-palaskas"
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    {
      "name": "Stefano Pellerano",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/stefano-pellerano"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ron Pongratz",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/ron-pongratz"
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    {
      "name": "Ashoke Ravi",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/ashoke-ravi"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shmuel Ravid",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/shmuel-ravid"
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter Andrew Sagazio",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/peter-andrew-sagazio"
    },
    {
      "name": "Eren Sasoglu",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/eren-sasoglu"
    },
    {
      "name": "Lior Shakedd",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/lior-shakedd"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gadi Shor",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/gadi-shor"
    },
    {
      "name": "Baljit Singh",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/baljit-singh"
    },
    {
      "name": "Menashe Soffer",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/menashe-soffer"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ra'anan Sover",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/raanan-sover"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nebil Tanzi",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/nebil-tanzi"
    },
    {
      "name": "Moshe Teplitsky",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/moshe-teplitsky"
    },
    {
      "name": "Chintan S. Thakkar",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/chintan-s-thakkar"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jayprakash Thakur",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/jayprakash-thakur"
    },
    {
      "name": "Avi Tsarfati",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/avi-tsarfati"
    },
    {
      "name": "Yossi Tsfati",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/yossi-tsfati"
    },
    {
      "name": "Marian Verhelst",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/marian-verhelst"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nir Weisman",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/nir-weisman"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shuhei Yamada",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/shuhei-yamada"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ana M. Yepes",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/ana-m-yepes"
    },
    {
      "name": "Duncan Kitchin",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/duncan-kitchin"
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  ],
  "times_cited": 5,
  "tags": [
    "telecommunications",
    "consumer_electronics",
    "semiconductors"
  ],
  "abstract": "Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11955732/wireless-communication-technology-apparatuses-and-methods",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11955732/wireless-communication-technology-apparatuses-and-methods/md",
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