US Patent Issued to Asahi Kasei Microdevices on March 31 for "TD converter, PLL circuit, TD converting method, and clock generating method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,704, issued on March 31, was assigned to Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp. (Tokyo).

"TD converter, PLL circuit, TD converting method, and clock generating method" was invented by Takeji Fujibayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a TD converter including: a plurality of oscillators which at least include a first oscillator and a second oscillator receiving control signals input thereto, respectively, and operating in operating modes with oscillation frequencies different from each other, respectively, wherein each control signal indicates a time difference between a reference clock and a target clock; and a computatio...