US Patent Issued to Seoul National University R&DB Foundation on March 31 for "Voltage mode relaxation oscillator" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,684, issued on March 31, was assigned to Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Voltage mode relaxation oscillator" was invented by Jaekwang Yun (Michuhol-gu Incheon, South Korea) and Suhwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage mode relaxation oscillator includes a bandgap reference (BGR) circuit configured to generate a BGR voltage that does not depend on temperature and a BGR current that depends on temperature; a control voltage generating circuit configured to generate a control voltage that does not depend on temperature based on the BGR voltage; a reference current generati...