US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on June 17 for "Methods and apparatus to prevent lock-up of high-speed pseudo-differential frequency divider circuits" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,924, issued on June 17, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to prevent lock-up of high-speed pseudo-differential frequency divider circuits" was invented by Robert Taft (Munich), Alexander Bodem (Freising, Germany), Filip Savic (Munich), Paul Kramer (Timnath, Colo.) and Vineethraj Rajappan Nair (Freising, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: first through eighth gated inverters each having inputs and outputs; a first and second inverter each having an input and an output, the output of the first inverter coupled to the input of the second gated inverter, the output ...