US Patent Issued on Aug. 19 for "Partial-fractional phase-locked loop with sigma delta modulator and finite impulse response filter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,178, issued on Aug. 19.

"Partial-fractional phase-locked loop with sigma delta modulator and finite impulse response filter" was invented by Reetika K Agarwal (San Jose, Calif.), Abbas Komijani (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hongrui Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having mixer circuitry configured to receive oscillator signals from a partial-fractional phase-locked loop (PLL). The partial-fractional PLL may include a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a loop filter, and a frequency divider connected in a loop. To implement the partial-fractional capability o...