ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,447, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"Tunable hybrid wideband LNA architecture" was invented by Emre Ayranci (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Jubaid Qayyum (San Diego), Phanindra Yerramilli (San Diego) and Miles Sanner (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits and methods for an LNA that enable selection of a first mode providing high gain with wide output impedance matching, and a second mode providing wideband output impedance matching with improved NF and linearity at moderate gain. Some embodiments allow multiple intermediate modes to enable selection of gain versus linearity an...