US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Nov. 25 for "Automatic hybrid oscillator gain adjustor circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,254, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Automatic hybrid oscillator gain adjustor circuit" was invented by Tsung-Hsien Tsai (Taoyuan County, Taiwan), Ya-Tin Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ruey-Bin Sheen (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic gain adjustor for a hybrid oscillator can be employed to overcome the frequency limitations of hybrid phase lock loops (PLLs). For example, an automatic gain adjustor for a hybrid oscillator can include a hybrid oscillator that is configured to receive a coarse tuning signal and a gain adjustment signal and genera...