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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2006
Applicants:
Wei Zhuo, San Diego, CA (US);
Aristotele Hadjichristos, San Diego, CA (US);
Gurkanwal S. Sahota, San Diego, CA (US);
Solti Peng, Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Wei Zhuo, San Diego, CA (US);
Aristotele Hadjichristos, San Diego, CA (US);
Gurkanwal S. Sahota, San Diego, CA (US);
Solti Peng, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method according to one embodiment includes using a quadrature set of local oscillator signals having duty cycles of substantially less than fifty percent to perform a mixing operation on a radio-frequency current signal. Other embodiments include using a quadrature set of local oscillator signals having duty cycles of less than twenty-five percent.