ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,140, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Circuit" was invented by Gian Hoogzaad (Mook, Netherlands), Gerben Willem de Jong (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Robert Victor Buytenhuijs (Wijchen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit comprising: an input terminal; a first amplifier coupled to the input terminal of the circuit to receive an input signal; a first inductor having a first terminal coupled to the input terminal and a second terminal configured to be coupled to the ground terminal, wherein the first inductor is arranged with a second inductor and configured to magnetically couple t...