US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on Jan. 20 for "Overdrive protection circuit with fast recovery" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,518, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Overdrive protection circuit with fast recovery" was invented by Yeung Bun Choi (Singapore), David Steven Ripley (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Peng Sun (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifier circuit comprising a power amplifier and a protection circuit coupled to the power amplifier. The protection circuit is configured to detect an overdrive condition and, in response to detecting an overdrive condition, apply a clamping status to the protection circuit to reduce a bias current to the power amplifier. The protection circuit has a capacitor ...