ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,895, issued on April 7, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Low-noise amplifier with MOM Q enhancement" was invented by Wu-Chen Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Hsuan Liu (Hualien, Taiwan) and Hsieh-Hung Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes an amplifier having an input terminal and an output terminal. The amplifier includes a gain stage and an output impedance matching network connected to the gain stage and to the output terminal. The output impedance matching network includes a plurality of metal-oxide-metal (MOM) capacitors connected in parallel to ...