ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,986, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"Extended impedance matching wideband LNA architectures" was invented by Emre Ayranci (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Mengsheng Rui (San Diego), Miles Sanner (San Diego) and Steve Gao (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits and methods for an amplifier (particularly LNAs) that achieve wideband output impedance matching and high gain while simultaneously rejecting out-of-band (OOB) harmonic frequencies. Some embodiments allow multiple modes of operation to allow selection of gain versus linearity characteristics. One aspect of the present inv...