ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,577, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Amplifier peak detection" was invented by Jeremy Goldblatt (Encinitas, Calif.), Arul Balasubramaniyan (Plano, Texas), Chinmaya Mishra (San Diego), Damin Cao (San Diego) and Bhushan Shanti Asuri (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peak detector for a power amplifier is provided that includes a threshold voltage detector configured to pulse a detection current in response to an amplified output signal from the amplifier exceeding a peak threshold. A plurality of such peak detectors may be integrated with a corresponding plurality of power amplifiers in a tran...