US Patent Issued on May 12 for "Oscillating circuit and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,260, issued on May 12.

"Oscillating circuit and electronic device" was invented by Masaya Nohara (Tsukuba, Japan), Takehito Ishii (Sendai, Japan) and Noritoshi Kimura (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oscillation circuit which includes a Pierce circuit and a Colpitts circuit that share an oscillator and an input node to respective amplifiers and switches connected to output nodes of the respective amplifiers of the Pierce circuit and the Colpitts circuit. The switches are controlled to cause the oscillation circuit output oscillation signals of the Pierce circuit at the time of oscillation start-up and output oscillatio...