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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:
Sep. 22, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

David J. Perreault, Brookline, MA (US);

Alexander Sergeev Jurkov, Cambridge, MA (US);

Taylor W. Barton, Boston, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/68 (2006.01); G06G 7/12 (2006.01); H03F 3/19 (2006.01); H03F 1/02 (2006.01); H03F 1/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06G 7/12 (2013.01); H03F 1/0294 (2013.01); H03F 1/56 (2013.01); H03F 3/19 (2013.01);
Abstract

A power combining and outphasing system and related techniques for simultaneously providing both wide-bandwidth linear amplification and high average efficiency is described. Providing linear amplification encompasses the ability to dynamically control an RF output power level over a wide range while still operating over a wide frequency bandwidth. The system and techniques described herein also operate to maintain high efficiency across a wide range of output power levels, such that a high average efficiency can be achieved for highly modulated output waveforms.


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