US Patent Issued to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings on Sept. 15 for "Open-collector variable gain amplifier and method therefor" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,911, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. (Lowell, Mass.).

"Open-collector variable gain amplifier and method therefor" was invented by Nguyen Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Trong Phan (Garden Grove, Calif.) and William Allen (Gansevoort, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifier circuit has a variable gain amplifier including an input receiving an input signal and an open-conduction output, and an output stage including an input coupled to the open-conduction output of the variable gain amplifier and an output providing an output signal of the amplifier circuit. The variable gain amplifier...