ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,747, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Relaxation oscillator" was invented by Wen-Hau Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Yu Luo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Hsuan Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tzu-Huan Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relaxation oscillator includes first to the sixth transistor, a resistor, a capacitor, an inverter, a pulse generator, and first to the third switch. The resistor is coupled between the third source and the third gate of the third transistor. The capacitor is coupled between the fourth source and the fourth gate of the fourth transistor. The inpu...