US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on March 24 for "Fast tuning radio frequency (RF) matching network" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,761, issued on March 24, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fast tuning radio frequency (RF) matching network" was invented by Yue Guo (Redwood City, Calif.), Kartik Ramaswamy (San Jose, Calif.), A N M Wasekul Azad (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nicolas J. Bright (Arlington, Wash.) and Yang Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to a tuning circuit. The tuning circuit generally includes: a first impedance; a second impedance coupled to the first impedance; a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding magnetically coupled to the primary winding, wherein the p...