ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,705, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).
"Oscillator regulation" was invented by Harald Garvik (Trondheim, Norway) and Erlend Strandvik (Trondheim, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for controlling the bias current, IPIERCE, of an oscillator. The method includes acquiring or determining a digital representation encoding a bias current. The method also includes carrying out an algorithm to update the digital representation if the oscillation amplitude is measured, by one or more peak detectors, to be outside of upper and lower thresholds. Also provided is an apparat...