US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on April 15 for "Phase-lock loop circuit, voltage-controlled oscillator and compensation method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,641, issued on April 15, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Phase-lock loop circuit, voltage-controlled oscillator and compensation method" was invented by Cheng-Feng Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jui-Hsien Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a voltage-controlled oscillator for a phase-lock loop circuit. The voltage-controlled oscillator is used to receive a control voltage and generate a clock signal, and includes a voltage-to-current device, a process compensation device, a subtraction unit and a clock signal generating module. The voltage-to-current device is u...