ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,286, issued on May 27, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Biasing of cascode power amplifiers for multiple power supply domains" was invented by Bang Li Liang (Ottawa), Guillaume Alexandre Blin (Carlisle, Mass.) and Thomas Obkircher (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bias schemes for cascode power amplifiers are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a power amplifier system includes a cascode power amplifier powered by a first supply voltage and that amplifies a radio frequency input signal, and a bias circuit including a voltage regulator that generates a regulated voltage and is powered by the fi...