ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,523, issued on March 17, was assigned to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, N.C.).
"Power enhanced hybrid Chireix-Doherty amplifier" was invented by Abdullah Eroglu (Oak Ridge, N.C.) and Emilio Ruiz-Linares (Greensboro, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a hybrid Chireix-Doherty amplifier comprises a first and second input network, a main amplifier coupled to a first output of the first input network, an auxiliary amplifier coupled to a second output of the second input network, and a combiner network. The combiner network is coupled to a first output of the main amplifier and ...