ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,220, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tunable bandpass low noise amplifier" was invented by Sashank Krishnamurthy (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ofir Degani (Nes-Ammim, Israel) and Ashoke Ravi (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tunable bandpass low-noise amplifier (LNA). The LNA includes a plurality of N-path filters and a plurality of cascode amplifiers. The cascode amplifiers are configured to amplify an input signal. Each N-path filter is coupled to a different one of the plurality of cascode amplifiers. The plurality of N-path filters are driven by local oscillator (LO) signals having diffe...