ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,087, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).
"Body tie optimization for stacked transistor amplifier" was invented by Simon Edward Willard (Irvine, Calif.), Chris Olson (Palatine, Ill.) and Tero Tapio Ranta (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transistor stack can include a combination of floating and body tied devices. Improved performance of the RF amplifier can be obtained by using a single body tied device as the input transistor of the stack, or as the output transistor of the stack, while other transistors of the stack are floating transistors. Transient response of the RF amplifier can be improved by...