Patent ID: 8319549

Claim:
An integrated power amplifier comprising: a divider having a divider input terminal and two or more divider output terminals, said divider input terminal electrically coupled to a power amplifier input terminal; a combiner having two or more combiner input terminals and a combiner output terminal electrically coupled to a power amplifier output terminal; two or more amplifiers in parallel, each amplifier having an amplifier input terminal and an amplifier output terminal, each of said amplifier input terminal electrically coupled to a divider output terminal and each of said amplifier output terminal electrically coupled to a combiner input terminal; at least one power sensor configured to provide a power amplifier performance metric; at least one terminal configured to receive an electrical voltage to power said integrated power amplifier; and wherein said divider and said combiner comprise a plurality of actuators, each actuator having at least one actuator control terminal configured to provide an actuator setting, and wherein said actuators are configured via said actuator control terminals to optimize said power amplifier performance metric.