ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,180, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).
"Common-gate amplifier circuit" was invented by Paolo Valerio Testa (Madrid) and Shafiullah Syed (Murphy, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a common-gate amplifier circuit and methods of operation. The structure includes at least one well in a substrate, a first metal layer connected to a gate of a transistor circuit, a second metal layer overlapped over the first metal layer to form a capacitor, and a third metal layer connected with vias to the first metal layer an...