US Patent Issued to PSEMI on March 31 for "Balanced amplifier arrangement for power control and improved deep back-off efficiency" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,669, issued on March 31, was assigned to PSEMI Corp. (San Diego).

"Balanced amplifier arrangement for power control and improved deep back-off efficiency" was invented by Vikas Sharma (Reading, Great Britain) and Peter Bacon (Derry, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for providing a reduction in output power of a balanced amplifier configuration are presented. According to one aspect, reduction of the output power is provided by deactivating one of the two amplification paths of the balanced amplifier. According to another aspect, impedances seen at ports of input and output couplers of the balanced amplifie...