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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:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 03, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Martin Paul Wilson, Cambridgeshire, GB;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/00 (2006.01); H03F 1/02 (2006.01); H03F 3/24 (2006.01); H03F 3/189 (2006.01); H03F 3/19 (2006.01); H03F 3/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/0222 (2013.01); H03F 1/00 (2013.01); H03F 1/02 (2013.01); H03F 1/025 (2013.01); H03F 3/189 (2013.01); H03F 3/19 (2013.01); H03F 3/21 (2013.01); H03F 3/245 (2013.01); H03F 2200/102 (2013.01); H03F 2200/331 (2013.01); H03F 2200/451 (2013.01); H03F 2200/504 (2013.01); H03F 2200/511 (2013.01);
Abstract

A radio frequency amplification stage comprising: an amplifier for receiving an input signal to be amplified and a power supply voltage; and a power supply voltage stage for supplying said power supply voltage, comprising: means for providing a reference signal representing the envelope of the input signal; means for selecting one of a plurality of supply voltage levels in dependence on the reference signal; and means for generating an adjusted selected power supply voltage, comprising an ac amplifier for amplifying a difference between the reference signal and one of the selected supply voltage level or the adjusted selected supply voltage level, and a summer for summing the amplified difference with the selected supply voltage to thereby generate the adjusted supply voltage.


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