ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,191, issued on July 1, was assigned to NXP USA INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Combiner circuit for Doherty power amplifier and related method of operation for achieving enhanced radio frequency and video bandwidth" was invented by Maruf Ahmed (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Doherty power amplifiers (DPAs), and related circuits, devices, systems and methods of operation, are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a system includes a first transistor device operable as a carrier amplifier, a second transistor device operable as a peaking amplifier, and at least one first integrated passive device (IPD) coupled between a comb...