ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,568, issued on March 25, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Controlled application of hysteresis in crystal oscillator circuits" was invented by Anand Kumar Sinha (Noida, India), Siyaram Sahu (Bari Raisen, India), Ateet Omer (Kanpur, India), Vishwajit Babasaheb Bugade (Kolhapur, India), Harish Eleendram (Tirupati, India) and Nagaraju Sunkara (Guntur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlled application of hysteresis in crystal oscillator circuits are discussed. In various embodiments, an Integrated Circuit (IC) may include: an inverter comparator coupled to a crystal oscillator, where the i...