US Patent Issued to National Research Council of Canada on June 17 for "Stable scalable digital frequency reference" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,940, issued on June 17, was assigned to National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa).

"Stable scalable digital frequency reference" was invented by Brent Carlson (Penticton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for timing aperture synthesis arrays comprising the steps of: (a) coupling a plurality of independent crystal oscillators, each of the plurality of independent crystal oscillators having a unique output frequency; (b) digitally synchronizing the plurality of independent crystal oscillators in phase; (c) combining the unique output frequencies; and (d) obtaining a stable digital reference signal for timing at least on...