US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on June 17 for "Gain contol to optimize sensitivity and blocking performance" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,889, issued on June 17, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Gain contol to optimize sensitivity and blocking performance" was invented by Rangakrishnan Srinivasan (Austin, Texas) and Abdulkerim Coban (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes: setting, via a controller of a receiver, a plurality of gain components of the receiver for a maximum gain setting for an automatic gain control (AGC) sensitivity (SENS) mode; receiving, in a controller of the receiver, an indication that a power level of an intermediate frequency (IF) signal measured at an output of an IF amplifie...