US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Idle tone mitigation using clock jitter" (Austrian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,348, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Idle tone mitigation using clock jitter" was invented by Carlos Andres Perez Cruz (Villach, Austria), Andres Quintero Alonso (Villach, Austria), Pedro Augusto Borrego Lambin Torres Amaral (Villach, Austria), Dietmar Straeussnigg (Villach, Austria), Andreas Wiesbauer (Portschach, Austria) and Luis Hernandez-Corporales (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes: a capacitive micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) microphone configured to generate a voltage signal in response to a sound signal; a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) coup...