ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,737, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Switch linearization with asymmetrical anti-series varactor pair" was invented by Yu Zhu (Wellesley, Mass.), Oleksiy Klimashov (Burlington, Mass.) and Paul T DiCarlo (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are switches with asymmetrical anti-series varactor pairs to improve switching performance. The disclosed switches can include asymmetrical varactor pairs to reduce distortions. The asymmetry in the varactor pairs can be associated with geometry of each varactor in the pair. The disclosed switches can stack both symmetrica...