ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,610, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Analog front-end device" was invented by Jian-Ru Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kai-Yue Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Ting Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog front-end device includes an amplifier circuit, a first gain control circuit, and a tracking circuit. The amplifier circuit is configured to generate a first output signal according to a first input signal. The first gain control circuit is configured to set a first electronic component according to a first gain control signal and transmit the first input signal to a first in...