ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,875, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Reconfigurable amplifier" was invented by Janakiram Sankaranarayanan (San Diego), Jun Tan (San Diego), Lai Kan Leung (Carlsbad, Calif.), Timothy Donald Gathman (San Diego), Mehmet Ipek (Dallas) and Ojas Choksi (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifying circuit includes a first reconfigurable amplifier configured to selectively operate in a cascode mode or a non-cascode mode, wherein an input of the first reconfigurable amplifier is coupled to a first input of the amplifying circuit, and an output of the first reconfigurable amplifier is coupled to an outp...