ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,841, issued on May 20, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Circuit device and oscillator" was invented by Shinnosuke Kano (Minowa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit device according to the embodiment includes an oscillation circuit, a current supply circuit, a counter circuit, and a calculation circuit. An oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit changes according to a supply current. The current supply circuit supplies, to the oscillation circuit, a first current that changes according to a detection target voltage. The counter circuit performs a count process of counting an output signal of the oscillat...