ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,041, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Distributed active power combining amplifier" was invented by Alireza Khalili (Campbell, Calif.), Amir Ziabasharhagh (Campbell, Calif.) and Beomsup Kim (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed active, power combining amplifier including at least one main amplifier having a first main portion and a second main portion, at least one peaking amplifier having a first peaking portion and a second peaking portion, and a transformer having a primary side and a secondary side, the primary side having at least a first primary segment, a second pri...