ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,958, issued on March 11, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Integrated LC oscillator of compact layout and low phase noise and method thereof" was invented by Chia-Liang (Leon) Lin (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An method of integrating an oscillator includes incorporating a main inductor and a main capacitor for establishing an oscillation; incorporating two cross-coupling NMOST and two cross-coupling PMOST for sustaining the oscillation; incorporating a first auxiliary inductor and a first auxiliary capacitor for suppressing a noise of the two cross-coupling NMOST; incorporating a seco...