US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 30 for "Process voltage temperature compensated current-starved inverter ring oscillator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,395, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Process voltage temperature compensated current-starved inverter ring oscillator" was invented by Hao Liu (San Diego), Lejie Lu (San Diego) and Yu Song (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus includes: a ring oscillator including a set of cascaded current-starved inverters arranged in a ring; a set of field effect transistors (FETs) coupled in series with the set of cascaded current-starved inverters between an upper voltage rail and a lower voltage rail, respectively; a negative to absolute temperature (NTAT) current source configured to generate a N...