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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2020
Applicant:

Innophase, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nicolo Testi, San Diego, CA (US);

Yang Xu, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

INNOPHASE INC., San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 1/00 (2006.01); H03G 5/28 (2006.01); H03B 5/12 (2006.01); H03H 7/09 (2006.01); H03H 11/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03G 5/28 (2013.01); H03B 5/1265 (2013.01); H03B 5/1287 (2013.01); H03H 7/09 (2013.01); H03H 11/06 (2013.01); H03F 2200/294 (2013.01); H03F 2200/372 (2013.01);
Abstract

A low noise amplifier includes at least two variable gain amplifier stages, each variable gain amplifier configured to accept an input signal and to provide a load driving signal; a tunable bandpass filter connected as a load to each variable gain amplifier stage, wherein each bandpass filter includes a resonant tank, each resonant tank including an inductor, wherein each inductor of each resonant tank is oriented in orthogonal relation with respect to each respective longitudinal axis of each next inductor, the orthogonal relation of the respective longitudinal axes configured to reduce mutual coupling between the tunable bandpass filters; a cross-coupled transistor pair, and at least one cross-coupled compensation transistor pair biased in a subthreshold region configured to add a transconductance component as a function of a load driving signal; and, a controller circuit configured to tune each tunable bandpass filter.


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