US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on July 28 for "Circuits, devices and methods related to protection of radio-frequency amplifiers" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,431, issued on July 28, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Circuits, devices and methods related to protection of radio-frequency amplifiers" was invented by Paul Raymond Andrys (Swisher, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method for operating a radio-frequency amplifier can include providing a bias signal to an amplifier implemented between an input node and an output node, and generating a detected voltage representative of a peak of a radio-frequency signal present at the input node. The method can further include enabling a protection mode when the detected voltage is greater than a...