US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Aug. 4 for "Programable gain amplifier and gain control method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,842, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Programable gain amplifier and gain control method" was invented by Chien Wen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Ching Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program gain amplifier includes an operational amplifier and a capacitor array. The capacitor array includes a first, second, and third capacitors selectively coupled to the operational amplifier or ground according to a first, second, and third switches, respectively. The first, second, and third capacitors have a first, second, and third capacitance, respectively. The third capacit...