ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,960, issued on March 11, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Active balun design" was invented by Song Lin (Lexington, Mass.), Xudong Wang (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Jinzhou Cao (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Christopher Eugene Hay (Colorado Springs, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present subject matter relates to active balun circuits. An active balun circuit includes a plurality of transistors; an output transmission line connected to output terminals of the transistors; an input transmission line; and a plurality of serial capacitors coupled to an input terminal of the transistors and the input transmission...