US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Oct. 21 for "Circuit device and oscillator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,841, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Circuit device and oscillator" was invented by Teppei Higuchi (Chino, Japan), Sho Matsuzaki (Ina, Japan), Yuichi Toriumi (Minowa, Japan) and Toshiya Usuda (Ina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit device includes: a first terminal and a second terminal coupled to a resonator; a third terminal; a fourth terminal; a first switch provided on a signal path between the first terminal and the third terminal; a second switch provided on a signal path between the second terminal and the fourth terminal; and a register configured to output a signal for controlling ...