ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,556, issued on March 17, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).
"Multi-gain stage circuit and associated calibration method" was invented by Tzung-Ling Tsai (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Chih-Lung Chen (HsinChu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-gain stage circuit is arranged to receive an input signal to generate an output signal, and includes a first gain stage, a second gain stage, a gain control circuit, and a calibration circuit. The second gain stage is connected in series with the first gain stage, and the second gain stage generates the output signal. The gain control circuit controls the first ga...