ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,804, issued on May 20, was assigned to Epirus Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for driving semiconductor devices and sensing device parameters" was invented by Padraig James Cooney (Palos Verdes, Calif.), Denpol Kultran (Torrance, Calif.), Ronald Chang (San Jose, Calif.) and Harry Bourne Marr Jr. (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) can drive semiconductor devices, such as, radio frequency amplifiers, switches, etc. The ASIC can include a supply and reference voltage generation circuit, a digital core, a clock generator, a plurality of analog-to-digital...