ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,183, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Power amplifier modules, systems, and substrates containing field trapper structures" was invented by Kevin Kim (Chandler, Ariz.), Vikas Shilimkar (Chandler, Ariz.) and Lakshminarayan Viswanathan (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power amplifier systems including field trapper structures are disclosed. In embodiments, the power amplifier system includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a power amplifier module (PAM), and a field trapper structure. The PAM includes, in turn, a topside radio frequency (RF) input terminal, topside RF output terminal, a PAM topsid...