ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,517, issued on June 24, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"System with a low-drift on-chip oscillator with lowered sensitivity to random telegraph noise" was invented by Oskar Krenek (Praha-Kolodeje, Czech Republic) and Christoph Kuratli (La Neuveville, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system with a low-drift on-chip (LD-RC) oscillator with lowered sensitivity to Random Telegraph Noise when generating a current (Id) for the LD-RC oscillator. A control resistor (R) is connected through an intermediary arrangement to one of a first MOS transistor (M1) or of a second MOS transistor (M2) betwee...