US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on July 15 for "Signal receiving apparatus and programmable gain amplifier having mode-switching mechanism" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,714, issued on July 15, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Signal receiving apparatus and programmable gain amplifier having mode-switching mechanism" was invented by Yun-Tse Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kai-Yin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a programmable gain amplifier having mode-switching mechanism. An operational amplifier includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal. The second input terminal is coupled to a ground terminal. The output terminal generates an output signal. A variable resistor and a first switch are...