ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,173, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Diodes Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Oscillator apparatus and control method" was invented by Yen-Chang Tung (HsinChu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first inverter having an input terminal and an output terminal, a first capacitive device connected between the input terminal and the output terminal of the first inverter, and a resistor network coupled to the first capacitive device, wherein the first inverter is configured as a negative amplifier, and the first capacitive device and the resistor network are configured to determine a frequency of an oscillator."
The pate...