ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,869, issued on June 17, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Enabling an external resistor for an oscillator" was invented by Nitin Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Aniruddha Roy (Bangalore, India) and Preetham Narayana Reddy (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a system includes an oscillator circuit on a chip. The oscillator circuit includes a charging current generator including a current mirror, an amplifier, and an on-chip resistor, where the on-chip resistor is coupled to a pin on the chip. The oscillator circuit also includes oscillator circuitry coupled to the charging current generator, whe...