US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 17 for "Hybrid low power rail to rail amplifier with leakage control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,148, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid low power rail to rail amplifier with leakage control" was invented by Armina Khakpour (San Diego) and Patrick Isakanian (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifier includes first and second input transistors, a first current mirror, a second current mirror, and a third current mirror. An input terminal of the first current mirror is coupled to a drain of the first input transistor, an input terminal of the second current mirror is coupled to a drain of the second input transistor, and an input terminal of the third current mirror is c...