US Patent Issued to Nordic Semiconductor ASA on July 8 for "Fast-locking all-digital phase-locked loop and applications thereof" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,452, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Fast-locking all-digital phase-locked loop and applications thereof" was invented by Carsten Wulff (Trondheim, Norway), Tor Oyvind Vedal (Trondheim, Norway), Ola Bruset (Trondheim, Norway), Shankkar Balasubramanian (Trondheim, Norway), Ruben Undheim (Trondheim, Norway) and Harald Garvik (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided an all-digital phase-locked loop, ADPLL, for a radio receiver, transmitter or transceiver. The ADPLL comprises a time-to-digital converter for generating a digital time signal ...