US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on Feb. 24 for "Envelope controlled radio frequency switches" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,760, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Envelope controlled radio frequency switches" was invented by Florinel G. Balteanu (Irvine, Calif.), Yu Zhu (Wellesley, Mass.) and Paul T. DiCarlo (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for envelope controlled radio frequency (RF) switches are provided. In certain embodiments, a power amplifier provides an RF signal to an antenna by way of an RF switch. Additionally, the envelope signal is used not only to control a power amplifier supply voltage of the power amplifier, but also to control a regulated voltage used to t...