US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on March 24 for "Low-noise crystal oscillator using gain boosting and method thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,136, issued on March 24, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Low-noise crystal oscillator using gain boosting and method thereof" was invented by Chia-Liang (Leon) Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crystal oscillator includes a first PMOS (p-channel metal-oxide semiconductor) transistor having its gate, source, and drain terminals connected to a gate node, a source node, and a drain node, respectively; a DC (direct current) coupling network configured to couple the gate node to a first bias node; a NMOS (n-channel metal-oxide semiconductor) transistor having its gate, source, and drain...