ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,550, issued on July 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to track an oscillator frequency with digital filters" was invented by Anurag Choudhury (Bengaluru, India), Robin Hoel (Oslo, Norway), Torjus Lyng Kallerud (Oslo, Norway) and Ashutosh Mishra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: first oscillator circuitry; second oscillator circuitry; period calculator circuitry coupled to the first oscillator circuitry and coupled to the second oscillator circuitry; averaging circuitry coupled to the period calculator circuitry; and coefficient filter circuitry co...