US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 29 for "Random mismatch compensation for high frequency injection locking ring oscillators" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,106, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Random mismatch compensation for high frequency injection locking ring oscillators" was invented by Baptiste Grave (Shanagarry, Ireland), Robert David Froggatt (Cork, Ireland), Stefano Facchin (Cork, Ireland) and Roi Naor (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection-locked oscillator includes a plurality of delay elements, two or more voltage control circuits, a phase comparator and a controller. The plurality of delay elements is connected in a loop and coupled to a global power supply. Each delay element has an input driven by a preceding stage and an...