ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,717, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Multi-gain-step digital step attenuator" was invented by Martin Clara (Santa Clara, Calif.), Giacomo Cascio (Villach, Austria), Erfan Ghaderi (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Marc Jan Georges Tiebout (Finkenstein, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital step attenuator for automatic gain control in a transceiver front-end. The digital step attenuator includes a series path coupled between an input port and an output port, a plurality of series shunt switches coupled in parallel to the series path, and a plurality of parallel paths coupled to the series path in ...