ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,044, issued on July 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Low noise amplifier circuit" was invented by Pete Sivonen (Raisio, Finland), Jarkko Jussila (Turku, Finland) and Sami Vilhonen (Lieto, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifier for converting a single-ended input signal to a differential output signal. The amplifier comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor and a fourth transistor. The first transistor, configured in common-source or common-emitter mode, receives the single-ended input signal and generates a first part of the differential output signal. T...