US Patent Issued to Silicon Motion on July 21 for "Fractional frequency divider and flash memory controller" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,914, issued on July 21, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Fractional frequency divider and flash memory controller" was invented by Tien-Hsing Yao (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chun-Cheng Lee (Yilan County, Taiwan) and Sheng-I Hsu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a fractional frequency divider, wherein the fractional frequency divider includes a plurality of registers, a counter, a control signal generator and a clock gating circuit. Regarding the plurality of registers, at least a portion of the registers are set to have values The counter is configured to se...