ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,593, issued on March 18, was assigned to Semtech Corp. (Camarillo, Calif.).
"Transimpedance amplifier" was invented by Christopher John Born (Bristol, Great Britain), Matthew George Hagman (Gatineau, Canada) and Darrell Iaian Smith (Herfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transimpedance amplifier (TIA) for converting an input current at an input node into an output voltage at an output node, the TIA comprising: a first amplifier stage having a first input coupled to the input node and a first output; a feedback path between the first output and the first input; a second amplifier stage in the feedback path havin...