US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on June 10 for "Methods and apparatus to improve performance of amplifiers" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,102, issued on June 10, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to improve performance of amplifiers" was invented by Vivek Varier (Tucson, Ariz.), Srinivas Pulijala (Tucson, Ariz.), Vadim Ivanov (Tucson, Ariz.) and Jerry Doorenbos (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: An amplifier comprising folded cascode circuitry having an input and an output, an input pair coupled to the input, clamp circuitry including: a first transistor having a first drain, a first source, and a first gate, the first source coupled to the output, a second transistor having a second drain,...