ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,938, issued on June 17, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Digital frequency synthesizer" was invented by Gaurav Agrawal (Noida, India) and Deependra Kumar Jain (Noida, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital frequency synthesizer includes a delay-locked loop (DLL) that generates time-delayed versions of a reference clock signal, a clock divider that executes an integer-division operation on one delayed clock signal to generate an integer-divided clock signal, and control circuitry that generates fractional data for enabling a fractional division. The digital frequency synthesizer further includes a first clock sel...