US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 1 for "System and method for synchronizing an oscillator output signal with reference input signal" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,183, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"System and method for synchronizing an oscillator output signal with reference input signal" was invented by Tsung-Hsien Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ya-Tin Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Hsien Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-Hsiang Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an oscillator circuit that includes first and second tuning banks and a current-controlled oscillator. The first tuning bank is connected to a voltage node and receives the tuning signal, generates a voltage drop at the voltage node th...