US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 13 for "Phase locked loop with decreased recovery time from disabling spread spectrum clock" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,009, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Phase locked loop with decreased recovery time from disabling spread spectrum clock" was invented by Burcin Serter Ergun (Poway, Calif.), Julian Puscar (Holly Springs, N.C.), Zhiqin Chen (San Diego), Russell Deans (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Jyotheeswara Reddy V (Pileru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including: a phase locked loop (PLL) configured to generate a spread spectrum clock (SSC) clock signal where the SSC clock signal swings between a first frequency and a third frequency based on an SSC enable signal being asserted, or a non-SSC clock signal...