US Patent Issued to MAGNACHIP MIXED-SIGNAL on July 29 for "Deadlock recovery circuit and deadlock recovery method, and PLL circuit including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,093, issued on July 29, was assigned to MAGNACHIP MIXED-SIGNAL LTD. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

"Deadlock recovery circuit and deadlock recovery method, and PLL circuit including the same" was invented by Chel Ho Chung (Cheongju-si, South Korea) and Gil Sung Roh (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a deadlock recovery unit for applying a one-shot pulse signal to restart a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) when the output clock signal of the VCO remains in a high state or a low state. The deadlock recovery unit includes a VCO clock monitoring unit for monitoring a clock signal of...