US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 24 for "Configurable frequency-locked loop/phase-locked loop oscillator" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,525, issued on June 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Configurable frequency-locked loop/phase-locked loop oscillator" was invented by Vishnu Ravinuthula (Dallas), Peng Cao (Allen, Texas) and Chienyu Huang (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) includes an oscillator circuit having a control input. A control circuit has a control output coupled to the control input. The control circuit is configured to generate a control signal to the control input of the oscillator circuit to cause: the oscillator circuit to be configured as a frequency-locked loop in response to the control signa...