US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on March 25 for "Control and calibration of external oscillators" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,608, issued on March 25, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Control and calibration of external oscillators" was invented by Hyman Shanan (Piscataway, N.J.) and John Kenney (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for control and calibration of external oscillators are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an electronic oscillator system includes a semiconductor die and a controllable oscillator that is external to the semiconductor die. The oscillation frequency of the controllable oscillator is tuned by a first varactor and a second varactor. The semiconductor die includes ...