ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,685, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Circuit device and oscillator" was invented by Yosuke Itasaka (Minowa, Japan), Kohei Beppu (Saitama, Japan) and Naoki Ii (Suwa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit device is configured to switching between a first mode in which phase noise of an output clock signal is lower than that in a second mode and the second mode in which power consumption is smaller than that in the first mode, and the circuit device includes an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal, a waveform shaping circuit configured to perform waveform shaping on the...