ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,653, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Multi-core VCO with robust unwanted mode suppression and circular coil topology" was invented by Suoping Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Wanghua Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Taeyoung Kang (Irvine, Calif.) and Zhiyu Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO are disclosed. A first VCO core includes a first cross-coupled (CC) transistor pair having a first conductivity type and a second cross-coupled transistor pair having a second conductivity type. A second VCO core includes a third CC tra...