US Patent Issued to NXP on July 21 for "Digitally controlled oscillator" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,328, issued on July 21, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Digitally controlled oscillator" was invented by Chuang Lu (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Nenad Pavlovic (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an oscillator, such as a Digitally Controlled Oscillator (DCO), having first capacitor banks coupled to a first path and a second path, the first path connecting a first node to a first output node, and the second path connecting a second node to a second output node, and second capacitor banks coupled to a third path and a fourth path, the third path being connected to ...