ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,587, issued on March 18, was assigned to PSEMI Corp. (San Diego).
"Gate drivers for stacked transistor amplifiers" was invented by Poojan Wagh (Sleepy Hollow, Ill.), Kashish Pal (Reading, Great Britain), Robert Mark Englekirk (Littleton, Colo.), Tero Tapio Ranta (San Diego), Keith Bargroff (San Diego) and Simon Edward Willard (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and circuital arrangements for biasing one or more gates of stacked transistors of an amplifier are possible where the amplifier is configured to operate in at least an active mode and a standby mode. Circuital arrangements can reduce bias circuit a...