US Patent Issued to NXP on Jan. 20 for "Crystal oscillator with on-chip negative resistance margin measurement circuit" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,513, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Crystal oscillator with on-chip negative resistance margin measurement circuit" was invented by Siyaram Sahu (Bari Raisen, India), Anand Kumar Sinha (Noida, India), Mohamed Suleman Moosa (Austin, Texas), Joe Chayachinda (Austin, Texas), Ateet Omer (Kanpur, India) and Ngoc Kim Huynh (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of methods and semiconductor devices are described that are configured to determine a negative resistance margin (NRM) of an oscillator circuit. The semiconductor device may include an integrated circuit including an amplifi...