ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,171, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Ring oscillator with an overstress solution" was invented by Chin-Kai Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuan-Ta Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ring oscillator with an overstress solution is shown, which includes a plurality of oscillation units connected in a ring, and two capacitors. The first capacitor has a first terminal and a second terminal that are respectively coupled to a first node and a second node of the ring. The second node is an input terminal of a first-stage oscillation unit. The first node is an output terminal of a later-stage...