US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on April 7 for "Reduce DCO frequency overlap-induced limit cycle in hybrid and digital PLLS" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,937, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Reduce DCO frequency overlap-induced limit cycle in hybrid and digital PLLS" was invented by Youcef Fouzar (Ottawa), Waleed El-halwagy (Ottawa), William Roberts (Highland, Utah), Kristopher Kshonze (Ottawa) and Faizal Warsalee (Sittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: observing that a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) frequency is at a boundary of a DCO frequency overlap region; and bypassing at least a portion of the DCO frequency overlap region."

The patent was filed on Aug. 11, 2023, under Application No. 18/448,7...