US Patent Issued to PSEMI on May 26 for "Power detector with wide dynamic range" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,481, issued on May 26, was assigned to PSEMI Corp. (San Diego).

"Power detector with wide dynamic range" was invented by Damian Costa (San Diego), Chih-Chieh Cheng (Poway, Calif.), Christopher C. Murphy (Lake Zurich, Canada) and Tero Tapio Ranta (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power detector with wide dynamic range. The power detector includes a linear detector, followed by a voltage-to-current-to-voltage converter, which is then followed by an amplification stage. The current-to-voltage conversion in the converter is performed logarithmically. The power detector generates a desired linear-in-dB response at the output. In ...