ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,683, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuits" was invented by Vishnu Kalyanamahadevi Gopalan Jawarlal (Bengaluru, India), Avneesh Singh Verma (Bengaluru, India) and Sanjeeb Kumar Ghosh (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein disclose an inductor-capacitor voltage-controlled oscillator VCO circuit. The LC-VCO circuit includes a center tapped inductor connected in parallel with a varactorless capacitor bank, where the LC tank circuit resonates to produce an oscillating voltage; and a control circuit connected to a va...