ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,692, issued on May 26, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"Wideband noise shaping split LNA architecture" was invented by Emre Ayranci (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Miles Sanner (San Diego), Anoop Sheokand (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Mengsheng Rui (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Split low noise amplifier (LNA) architectures providing an improved tradeoff between the noise figure (NF) and the output-to-output isolation are disclosed. The described LNAs include cascode transistors in two amplification paths and an inductive element including a pair of inductors and a common inductor. The inductance values...