US Patent Issued to MediaTek on May 20 for "Frequency calibration circuit and method for calibrating oscillation frequency of controllable oscillator" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,842, issued on May 20, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Frequency calibration circuit and method for calibrating oscillation frequency of controllable oscillator" was invented by Chien-Wei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kairen Fong (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chao-Ching Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Li Hsueh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency calibration (FCAL) circuit and a method for calibrating an oscillation frequency of a controllable oscillator are provided. The FCAL circuit includes the controllable oscillator, a divider, a time-to-digital converter (TDC) and a calibration logic. The controllable osci...