ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,710, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"Low power crystal oscillator" was invented by Anand Kumar (Noida, India) and Nitin Jain (Greater Noida, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low power crystal oscillator circuit having a high power part and a low power part. Oscillation is initialized using the high power part. Once the crystal is under stable oscillation, the circuit switches to the low power part and continue operation for a long duration."
The patent was filed on Sept. 7, 2023, under Application No. 18/463,212.
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