ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,931, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Phase-locked loop circuit including a plurality of capacitor cells and method of controlling the same" was invented by Pillseong Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chulho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joonhee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ikkyun Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase-locked loop circuit includes an oscillator including a plurality of capacitor cells, and a control logic circuit that receives an output from the oscillator. The control logic circuit compares a target fre...