ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,449, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Quantization extraction for phase-locked loop oscillators" was invented by Karthikeyan Gunasekaran (Bangalore, India), Jagannathan Venkataraman (Bangalore, India) and Shalu Francis (Kozhikode, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes quantization feedback circuitry (QFC) including an input terminal coupled to an output terminal of voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) circuitry and an input terminal coupled to an output terminal of first frequency divider circuitry (FDC). The example apparatus also includes second FDC including an output...