US Patent Issued to NXP on April 22 for "Method of controlling a frequency-modulated oscillator of a phase-locked loop circuit" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,962, issued on April 22, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method of controlling a frequency-modulated oscillator of a phase-locked loop circuit" was invented by Nenad Pavlovic (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Chuang Lu (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Vladislav Dyachenko (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a frequency-modulated oscillator 110 of a phase-locked loop circuit 100 is described, wherein the oscillator 110 comprises a bank of capacitors 413. The method comprises the steps of (i) switching a capacitor 414 of the bank of capacitors 413 to change an output frequency 1050 of an...