US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Sept. 8 for "Analog amplitude control circuit to optimize drive level of crystal oscillator" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,146, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Analog amplitude control circuit to optimize drive level of crystal oscillator" was invented by Jayanthi Sri Ram Kumar (Rajahmundry, India) and Rahul Gupta (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes, in part, a transconductance amplifier, a common source amplifier, a resistor, and NMOS transistor. The common source amplifier is coupled to an output of the transconductance amplifier and generates a signal coupled to an output terminal of a crystal oscillator circuit. The resistor is coupled between the transconductance amplifier and th...