ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,447, issued on July 22, was assigned to Movellus Circuits Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Clock generator system with dynamic frequency crossover" was invented by Xiao Wu (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Marcus Van Ierssel (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock generator system includes a first clock generator circuit to generate a first clock output signal having a first clock output frequency that is within a first bounded range of frequencies. The first clock generator circuit, during a transition mode, exhibits a first ramping of the first clock output signal from the first clock output frequency towards a target frequency. The system i...