ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,805, issued on June 10, was assigned to NXP USA INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Packaged power amplifier device" was invented by Kevin Kim (Chandler, Ariz.), Vikas Shilimkar (Chandler, Ariz.) and Joseph Gerard Schultz (Wheaton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power amplifier device includes a substrate, a power transistor die, and one or more surface mount components. The substrate has substrate die contacts exposed at a first substrate surface, and additional substrate contacts exposed at a second substrate surface. The power transistor die includes an integrated transistor. The transistor includes a control terminal and a first curren...