ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,721, issued on July 15, was assigned to SWIFTLINK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Richmond, Canada).

"Transformer-based Marchand Balun amplifier for wireless communication" was invented by Min-Yu Huang (Richmond, Canada), Ayman Eltaliawy (Richmond, Canada) and Srinaga Nikhil Nallandhigal (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifier includes a first and a second differential input ports, and a single-ended output port. The amplifier includes a first and a second transistors, each having a gate, source, and drain terminals. The source terminals are coupled to a reference plane and the gate terminals are coupled to the respective fi...