US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on March 11 for "Front-end for receivers with RF sampling ADCS" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,015, issued on March 11, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Front-end for receivers with RF sampling ADCS" was invented by Athanasios Ramkaj (Leuven, Belgium), Gabriele Manganaro (Winchester, Mass.), Filip Tavernier (Oud-Heverlee, Belgium) and Siddharth Devarajan (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Front-end circuitry is difficult to design for high sample rate, wide bandwidth receivers with high performance requirements on noise and linearity. One exemplary front-end circuitry is integrated on-chip with the RF ADC in a receiver, and the circuitry implements ESD protection, att...