US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 23 for "Frequency spread spectrum (FSS) oscillator" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,822, issued on June 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Frequency spread spectrum (FSS) oscillator" was invented by Liang Zhang (Beijing), Yutao Wang (Rizhao, China) and Xinyu Yin (Fengtai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, an oscillator comprises a reference voltage generator circuit configured to increase and decrease a reference voltage responsive to each pulse of a clock signal based on a comparison of the reference voltage to upper and lower boundaries. The oscillator also comprises an oscillation circuit coupled to the reference voltage generator circuit and configured to provide the clock sign...