ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,279, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Low power voltage controllable oscillator with rail-to-rail output" was invented by Mael Demarets (Huppaye, Belgium), Gerard Villar Pique (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Sander Derksen (Hank, Netherlands) and Fabio Sebastiano (Den Hoorn, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controllable oscillator including an upper oscillator coupled between an upper supply voltage and an upper intermediate node that provides at least one upper oscillating signal on at least one upper oscillating node, a lower oscillator coupled between a lower intermediate node and a lo...