ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,026, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to pSemi Corp. (San Diego).
"Tunable effective inductance for multi-gain LNA with inductive source degeneration" was invented by Jing Li (Austin, Texas), Emre Ayranci (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Miles Sanner (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-gain LNA with inductive source degeneration is presented. The inductive source degeneration is provided via a tunable degeneration network that includes an inductor in parallel with one or more switchable shunting networks. Each shunting network includes a shunting capacitor that can selectively be coupled in parallel to the inductor. A capacita...