US Patent Issued to ICOM on Jan. 27 for "Frequency control assist device, frequency control device, and radio device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,777, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ICOM Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Frequency control assist device, frequency control device, and radio device" was invented by Masanori Kitabata (Osaka, Japan), Jyota Koyama (Osaka, Japan) and Sota Shimamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency control assist device is configured to: calculate an average value of pulse numbers each of which is a pulse number of a reference signal generated by an oscillator in one cycle of a PPS signal generated based on a GPS signal, from a total of the pulse numbers counted for a time period whose length is a predetermined number times the one cyc...