ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,539, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Phase locked loop circuit and method of operation thereof" was invented by Dohun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junhyeok Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyuntaek Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dokyung Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chanyoung Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a phase locked loop circuit including a phase-frequency detection circuit configured to receive a reference clock signal and a feedback clock signal having a first phase difference from each other, adjust a phase gain based on fi...