US Patent Issued to pSemi on July 7 for "AC coupling modules for bias ladders" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,607, issued on July 7, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).

"AC coupling modules for bias ladders" was invented by Simon Edward Willard (Irvine, Calif.), Tero Tapio Ranta (San Diego), Matt Allison (Oceanside, Calif.) and Shashi Ketan Samal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive-logic FET switch stack that does not require a negative bias voltage, exhibits high isolation and low insertion/mismatch loss, and may withstand high RF voltages. Embodiments include a FET stack comprising series-coupled positive-logic FETs (i.e., FETs not requiring a negative voltage supply to turn OFF), series-coupled on at least one end by ...