ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,957, issued on March 11, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Self-biased, closed loop, low current free running oscillator" was invented by Divya Tripathi (Noida, India), Sadique Mohammad Iqbal (Karimganj, India), Anubhav Srivastava (Gorakhpur, India), Krishna Thakur (GautamBudh Nagar, India), Pragya Priya Malakar (Chandler, Ariz.) and John Pigott (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-biased, closed loop, low current free running oscillator clock generator method and apparatus are provided with a current mode comparator connected to a trimming resistor and configured to compare an internally generated voltage ref...