ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,221, issued on July 1, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).

"Circuit and method for controlling charge injection in radio frequency switches" was invented by Alexander Dribinsky (Naperville, Ill.), Tae Youn Kim (Irvine, Calif.), Dylan J. Kelly (San Diego) and Christopher N. Brindle (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit and method for controlling charge injection in a circuit are disclosed. In one embodiment, the circuit and method are employed in a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) Radio Frequency (RF) switch. In one embodiment, an SOI RF switch includes switching transistors coupled in series, referred to as "sta...