US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on July 29 for "Devices and methods related to diode switch control" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,082, issued on July 29, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Devices and methods related to diode switch control" was invented by Lui Ray Lam (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to a circuit assembly for biasing a PIN diode, wherein a DC biasing voltage is obtained by extracting power from a radio-frequency transmission path. The circuit assembly comprises a PIN diode, an input node configured to receive a radio-frequency input voltage, a rectifying circuit configured to receive the radio-frequency input voltage from the input node and generate a rectified voltage...