ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,249, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Spread spectrum adjustment for an LC circuit" was invented by Ajay Kumar (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller and a method is provided for controlling a capacitance of an LC circuit having a circuit frequency including, a variable capacitor to couple with an external inductor as part of an LC circuit, a target value, a spread spectrum function to generate an adjustment value, and a circuit to poll the target value, call the spread spectrum function, and set a capacitance of the variable capacitor based on the sum of the target value an...