ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,594, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Power amplifiers and methods of controlling same" was invented by Fei Wang (Atlanta), Justin Romberg (Atlanta), Hua Wang (Atlanta) and Shaojie Xu (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method of controlling a power amplifier (PA). The PA can comprise a main PA path and an auxiliary PA path. The auxiliary PA path can have a plurality of turn-on settings. The method can comprise: determining a power back off gain and a lower bound gain for the PA; and performing an iterative auxiliary PA turn-on setting se...