ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,840, issued on May 20, was assigned to FARADAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Relaxation oscillator" was invented by Hao-Wei Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yueh-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hong-Ren Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relaxation oscillator includes a start-up circuit. During the start-up period of the relaxation oscillator, two output signals from the relaxation oscillator are controlled to be complementary signals by the start-up circuit according to a control signal. Consequently, the relaxation oscillator can be started up successfully. The relaxation oscillator can generate periodic square wave si...