ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,090, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Reconfigurable asymmetrical load-modulated balanced amplifiers" was invented by Kenle Chen (Oviedo, Fla.), Yuchen Cao (Orlando, Fla.) and Haifeng Lyu (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a reconfigurable asymmetrical load-modulated balanced amplifier. The reconfigurable asymmetrical load-modulated balanced amplifier can include a radio frequency (RF) input port, an RF output port, a peaking amplifier circuit operably coupled between the RF input and RF output ports, where the peaking amplifier ...