US Patent Issued to ams-OSRAM on Aug. 4 for "Phase-locked loop" (Austrian, Croatian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,869, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ams-OSRAM AG (Premstaetten, Austria).

"Phase-locked loop" was invented by Niko Bako (Zagreb, Croatia), Gregor Schatzberger (Graz, Austria) and Ivan Brezovec (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase-locked loop circuit comprises an analog part, an integral part, and a voltage controlled oscillator configured to receive a first current signal from the analog part and a second current signal from the integral part, and to output an output clock. The integral part is configured to receive a first and a second update signal each having at least one state based on a phase difference betwee...