US Patent Issued to MediaTek on March 25 for "Multi-path voltage-controlled oscillator with same varactor controlled by inputs from different paths and associated method" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,607, issued on March 25, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multi-path voltage-controlled oscillator with same varactor controlled by inputs from different paths and associated method" was invented by Tsz-Bin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Mohammed Mohsen Abdulsalam Abdullatif (San Jose, Calif.), Ahmed Safwat Mohamed Aboelenein Elmallah (San Jose, Calif.) and Mohammed Tamer Ali (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-path voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) includes a VCO core circuit and a control voltage generator circuit. The VCO core circuit includes a varactor that has a control node for receiving a cont...