US Patent Issued to NXP on Sept. 15 for "Clock circuit" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,930, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Clock circuit" was invented by Yikun Mo (Suzhou, China), Hongyan Yao (Suzhou, China), Yizhong Zhang (Suzhou, China), Jianluo Chen (Suzhou, China) and Xinhao Miao (Nantong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock circuit comprising a voltage-controlled oscillator having an input coupled to an output of an amplifier, and an output, outputting an output clock signal. The clock circuit further comprises, a reference branch and a feedback branch, both comprising, a first switch coupled to an input via an inverter and a second switch coupled to the input. Th...