ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,894, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Progressive envelope tracking with delay compensation" was invented by Nadim Khlat (Cugnaux, France) and Mohammad Ahsanul Adeeb (High Point, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A progressive envelope tracking (ET) with delay compensation includes an ET integrated circuit (IC) (ETIC) that is a progressive ETIC that switches between different driver amplifiers having different associated offset voltages based on a tracking signal (e.g., Vramp) from a baseband transceiver. To make sure that desired changes to the offset voltage occur contemporaneously with an i...