ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,184, issued on May 13, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Average power tracking power management circuit" was invented by Nadim Khlat (Cugnaux, France) and Michael R. Kay (Summerfield, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An average power tracking (APT) power management circuit is provided. The APT power management circuit is configured to generate a first APT voltage(s) for a first power amplifier(s) and a second APT voltage(s) for a second power amplifier(s). The APT power management circuit further includes a pair of switcher circuits that can generate a pair of reference voltages. Depending on various operating sc...