ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,578, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Radio transmitter" was invented by David Seebacher (Villach, Austria), Fabio Padovan (Villach, Austria), Davide Ponton (Villach, Austria) and Dmytro Cherniak (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes connecting a first subset of a set of stages of a power amplifier to a supply voltage, connecting a second subset of the set of stages to a reference voltage different than the supply voltage, switching a third subset of the set of stages according to a switching frequency, assigning numbers of stages in the...