ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,415, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).

"Scalable periphery tunable matching power amplifier" was invented by Dan William Nobbe (Crystal Lake, Ill.), David Halchin (Summerfield, N.C.), Jeffrey A. Dykstra (Woodstock, Ill.), Michael P. Gaynor (Crystal Lake, Ill.), David Kovac (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Kelly Michael Mekechuk (Austin, Texas), Gary Frederick Kaatz (Barrington, Ill.) and Chris Olson (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scalable periphery tunable matching power amplifier is presented. Varying power levels can be accommodated by selectively activating or deactivating unit cells of which ...