US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "Early lock detection for phase locked loops" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,661, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Early lock detection for phase locked loops" was invented by Julian Puscar (Holly Springs, N.C.), Burcin Serter Ergun (Poway, Calif.), Brett Patrick Delaney (San Diego) and Zhiqin Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a phase locked loop (PLL) includes counting cycles of an output clock signal generated by the PLL until early phase lock signal is asserted when the cycles of the output clock signal counted within a first duration of time differ from a first target value by no more than a first maximum difference, counting cycles of ...