US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 4 for "Reference clock switching in phase-locked loop circuits" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,985, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Reference clock switching in phase-locked loop circuits" was invented by Hairong Yu (Saratoga, Calif.), Boon-Aik Ang (Los Altos, Calif.), Yu Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Litesh Sajnani (Santa Clara, Calif.), Samed Maltabas (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shaobo Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gregory N. Santos (Melbourne, Fla.), Richard Y. Su (Santa Clara, Calif.), Meei-Ling Chiang (Cupertino, Calif.), Pyoungwon Park (San Jose, Calif.) and Dennis M. Fischette Jr. (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock generator circuit may include a multiplex circuit and a p...