ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,611, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Capacitor-based degeneration circuits" was invented by Xingyi Hua (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Weiheng Chang (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to variable-gain amplifiers that include degeneration circuits configured to adapt to a gain mode that is currently being implemented. For example, a variable-gain amplifier can operate in a plurality of gain modes to amplify a signal with different levels of amplification. The variable-gain amplifier can include a gain circuit configured to amplify a signal and a degener...