US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on June 17 for "Semiconductor integrated circuit, electronic device, and control method for semiconductor integrated circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,937, issued on June 17, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor integrated circuit, electronic device, and control method for semiconductor integrated circuit" was invented by Hideo Yamaji (Kanagawa, Japan), Sho Ohashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yinta Lin (Kanagawa, Japan), Riichi Nishino (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshinori Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a circuit provided with a phase comparator, a lock time is shortened.The phase comparator compares between a phase of a reference clock signal that has been input and a phase of a feedback clock signal, and outputs a comp...