US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 13 for "Frequency control in a multi-mode VCO" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,168, issued on May 13, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Frequency control in a multi-mode VCO" was invented by Bodhisatwa Sadhu (Peekskill, N.Y.), Herschel Akiba Ainspan (New Hempstead, N.Y.), Zheng Xu (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Armagan Dascurcu (New York) and Gary Kurtzman (Lago Vista, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) includes a cross-coupled transconductance cell. A transformer comprising a primary coil and at least one secondary coil, wherein the primary coil is connected to the cross-coupled transconductance cell. A primary coil varactor is connected t...