ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,100, issued on April 8, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Main-auxiliary field-effect transistor configurations" was invented by Hailing Wang (Acton, Mass.), Dylan Charles Bartle (Arlington, Mass.), Hanching Fuh (Allston, Mass.), Jerod F. Mason (Bedford, Mass.), David Scott Whitefield (Andover, Mass.) and Paul T. DiCarlo (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are switching or other active FET configurations that implement a branch design with one or more interior FETs of a main path coupled in parallel with one or more auxiliary FETs of an auxiliary path. Such designs include a ci...