ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,214, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Radio frequency switching time reducing circuit" was invented by Lynn Yun Kong (Lexington, Mass.), Yi Yang (Malden, Mass.) and Bo Zhou (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching circuit comprises a radio frequency (RF) switch, a gate resistor, a voltage source, a transmission gate, and coupling circuitry configured to couple a gate of the RF switch, a first side of the gate resistor, and the transmission gate at a first node and the voltage source, a second side of the gate resistor, and the transmission gate at a second node."

The paten...