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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:
Jan. 20, 2026

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2022
Applicant:

Skyworks Solutions, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yeung Bun Choi, Singapore, SG;

David Steven Ripley, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);

Peng Sun, Singapore, SG;

Assignee:

Skyworks Solutions, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/52 (2006.01); H03F 3/24 (2006.01); H04B 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/52 (2013.01); H03F 3/245 (2013.01); H03F 2200/171 (2013.01); H03F 2200/426 (2013.01); H03F 2200/451 (2013.01); H04B 1/04 (2013.01); H04B 2001/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

An amplifier circuit comprising a power amplifier and a protection circuit coupled to the power amplifier. The protection circuit is configured to detect an overdrive condition and, in response to detecting an overdrive condition, apply a clamping status to the protection circuit to reduce a bias current to the power amplifier. The protection circuit has a capacitor and a recovery circuit including: a sensing component configured to monitor a change of charging and discharging currents to and from the capacitor respectively during the clamping status; a first device configured to set a time constant of the recovery circuit; and a second device configured to reset the protection circuit to remove the clamping status when the change of charging or discharging current is beyond a predetermined threshold.


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