US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Jan. 20 for "PLL circuit and method for generating a modulated carrier signal" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,514, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"PLL circuit and method for generating a modulated carrier signal" was invented by Zhong Gao (Delft, Netherlands), Masoud Babaie (Delft, Netherlands), Martin Fritz (Stuttgart, Germany), Jingchu He (Delft, Netherlands), Morteza Alavi (Delft, Netherlands) and Bogdan Staszewski (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PLL circuit for generating a modulated carrier signal includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) to generate the modulated signal. The PLL circuit receives a desired phase change as a modulation signal at each cy...