US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on June 17 for "Phase-locked loop (PLL) with direct feedforward circuit" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,939, issued on June 17, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Phase-locked loop (PLL) with direct feedforward circuit" was invented by Debapriya Sahu (Bengaluru, India) and Rittu Sachdev (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase-locked loop (PLL) device includes: 1) a detector configured to output an error signal to indicate a phase offset between a feedback clock signal and a reference clock signal; 2) a charge pump coupled to the detector and configured to output a charge pump signal based on the error signal; 3) an integrator with a feedback path, an input node, a reference node, and an output node, wher...