US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Aug. 5 for "Semiconductor integrated circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,565, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor integrated circuit" was invented by Tuan Van Pham (Kanagawa, Japan), Hironori Nakahara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masahisa Tamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a semiconductor integrated circuit and an imaging device capable of reducing power consumption without complicating a configuration of oscillation control.A semiconductor integrated circuit includes an oscillator that generates an oscillation signal whose oscillation frequency is discretely adjustable on the basis of a digital control input signa...