ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,189, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Clock signal generation circuit and clock signal generation method thereof" was invented by Hao-Huan Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia Hui Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock signal generation circuit and a clock signal generation method thereof are provided. When an analog clock signal generator circuit does not provide an output clock signal, a control circuit controls a multiplexer circuit to selectively output an oscillator signal provided by an oscillator circuit to the analog clock signal generator circuit, and contr...