US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on April 15 for "Circuits and methods for wake-up receivers" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,722, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Circuits and methods for wake-up receivers" was invented by Vivek Mangal (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Peter R. Kinget (Summit, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuit for wake-up receivers are provide. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers include self-mixers that receive a gate bias voltage. Some of the self-mixers are single ended and some are differential. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers include a matching network that is connected to the input of the self-mixer. In some embodiments, the wake-up receive...