US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on Oct. 7 for "Low power low frequency counter for software use" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,592, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Low power low frequency counter for software use" was invented by Subrata Roy (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method updates a low frequency count value at a first frequency in an active mode and maintains the low frequency count value in the low power mode. Updating the low frequency count value includes updating a fractional counter in response to a first clock signal, updating an integral counter in response to a second clock signal, and generating the second clock signal based on the fractional count and the first clock signal. The f...