ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,534, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Current feedback amplifier" was invented by Giacomo Cascio (Villach, Austria), Martin Clara (Santa Clara, Calif.), Marc Jan Georges Tiebout (Finkenstein, Austria) and Daniel Gruber (St. Andrae, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current feedback amplifier (CFA). The CFA includes a common-gate input stage, a biasing circuitry, and a differential pair coupled in parallel between the supply voltage node and the reference voltage node. The common-gate input stage amplifies an input signal received at an input node and supplies it to a gate of the complement...