US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on Sept. 8 for "Differential digital step attenuators with leakage cancellation" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,149, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Differential digital step attenuators with leakage cancellation" was invented by Jonathan P. Comeau (Winchester, Mass.), Douglas S. Jansen (Durango, Colo.) and Gary M. Madison (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attenuator circuit includes a differential input having first and second inputs, and a differential output having first and second outputs. The attenuator circuit further includes a first transistor coupled between the first input and the first output, a second transistor coupled between the s...