US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 25 for "Amplifier with stacked transconducting cells in current mode combining" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,573, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Amplifier with stacked transconducting cells in current mode combining" was invented by Chris Thomas (Playa Vista, Calif.) and Brian K. Kormanyos (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifier with stacked transconducting cells in "current mode combining" is disclosed herein. In one or more embodiments, a method for operation of a high-voltage signal amplifier comprises inputting, into each transconducting cell of a plurality of transconducting cells, a direct current (DC) supply current (Idc), an alternating current (AC) radio frequency (RF) inp...