US Patent Issued to Rohm on Dec. 16 for "Oscillator circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,579, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Oscillator circuit" was invented by Hiroki Yano (Kyoto, Japan) and Yo Yamashiro (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an oscillator circuit. The oscillator circuit includes: a plurality of multi-stage inverters, connected in a ring shape to form a loop path; a capacitor, connected in series on the loop path; a charging/discharging control circuit, configured to charge/discharge the capacitor by pulse-driving a voltage level at a first end of the capacitor according to an output of any one of the multi-stage inverters; and a b...