US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 25 for "Compact frequency-locked loop architecture for digital clocking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,612, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Compact frequency-locked loop architecture for digital clocking" was invented by John Abcarius (San Diego), Debesh Bhatta (San Diego), Andrew Weil (San Diego), Robert Martin Ondris (San Diego) and Wenjing Yin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a relatively compact frequency-locked loop (FLL) using a discrete-time integrator. For certain aspects, the FLL also includes a supplemental oscillator and other circuitry that allows for saving the FLL frequency when a reference clock will be disconnected, maintaining ...