ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,326, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reducing parasitic capacitance" was invented by Ranadeep Dutta (Del Mar, Calif.), Abdellatif Bellaouar (Richardson, Texas) and Chuan-Cheng Cheng (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed for reducing parasitic capacitance. In an example aspect, an apparatus includes an amplifier having a differential cascode configuration. Each stack of the amplifier includes a first transistor configured to operate as an input stage and a second transistor configured to operate as a cascode stage. The first and second transistors each include two channel te...