ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,889, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Montage Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Multi-mode frequency division circuit" was invented by Qiuyan Zu (Shanghai), Gang Yan (Shanghai), Yong Wang (Shanghai) and Pengzhan Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a multi-mode frequency division circuit including a frequency division factor processor, a frequency divider, and a logic operator. The frequency division factor processor receives the frequency division factor, decomposes the frequency division factor to obtain a first sub-frequency division factor and a second sub-frequency division factor, ...