US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on May 27 for "Low power mode control module and method for crystal oscillator, and circuit using the same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,277, issued on May 27, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Low power mode control module and method for crystal oscillator, and circuit using the same" was invented by Wen-Yi Li (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low power mode control module for a crystal oscillator which performs the following steps: detecting whether an oscillation output signal of the crystal oscillator is output stably; when the oscillation output signal of the crystal oscillator is output stably, comparing at least one of an oscillation input signal and the oscillation output signal with an amplitude control signal to dete...