ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,264, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).
"Turn on time acceleration of a cascode amplifier" was invented by Emre Ayranci (San Diego) and Niraja Shreekant Paranjape (La Jolla, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and circuital arrangements for reducing a turn ON time of a cascode amplifier are presented. According to one aspect, a configurable switching arrangement coupled to a cascode transistor of the amplifier shorts a gate of the cascode transistor to a reference ground during an inactive mode of operation of the amplifier. During an active mode of operation of the amplifier, the configur...