US Patent Issued to Semtech on July 21 for "Transimpedance amplifiers" (British, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,338, issued on July 21, was assigned to Semtech Corp. (Camarillo, Calif.).

"Transimpedance amplifiers" was invented by Behzad Farzaneh (London), Matthew George Hagman (Gatineau, Canada) and Christopher John Born (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs), in particular to TIAs with wideband feedback. The TIA has an input stage, for receiving an input current and outputting a corresponding output voltage, with a first transistor configured as an input transistor in a first circuit branch. A reference controller is configured to provide a reference voltage with a ...