ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,590, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Oscillator" was invented by Takashi Nomiya (Matsumoto, Japan) and Kentaro Seo (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oscillator includes a resonator element, a first temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the resonator element, a temperature control element that controls the temperature of the resonator element, and a temperature control circuit that generates a control signal for controlling an operation of the temperature control element, in which the temperature control circuit generates the control signal based on a value obtained by multip...