ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,561, issued on July 14, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multi-output supply generator with parallel converters" was invented by James Garrett (Windham, N.H.), Sri Harsh Pakala (Chandler, Ariz.), Brendan Metzner (North Billerica, Mass.), Ivan Duzevik (Portland, Maine), David J. Perreault (Cambridge, Mass.), John R. Hoversten (Arlington, Mass.) and Yevgeniy A. Tkachenko (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are circuits and techniques to increase the efficiency of radio-frequency (rf) amplifiers including rf power amplifiers (PAs) through "supply modulation" (also referred to as "drain ...