US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 22 for "Methods and apparatus of charge-sharing locking with digital controlled oscillators" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,445, issued on July 22, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Methods and apparatus of charge-sharing locking with digital controlled oscillators" was invented by Min-Shueh Yuan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chao-Chieh Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Chun Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Tso Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wen-Yuan Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Hsien Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO), two charge-sharing capacitors, two charge-sharing switches, two pre-charge switches, and two DACs. The DCO has a first in...