ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,609, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Flexible phase-lock loop gear shifting" was invented by Mathieu Perin (Cairon, France), Stefano Dal Toso (Antibes, France) and Khurram Waheed (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a phase-lock loop gear shifter that includes: an input for receiving a loop gain that is dynamically controllable; an input for receiving a phase-error signal; a subtractor configured to provide a gain difference between the loop gain input at a second time and the loop gain input at a first time, the first time being earlier than the second time; a module that d...