US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 27 for "Method and circuit for DLL locking mechanism for wide range harmonic detection and false lock detection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,334, issued on May 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Method and circuit for DLL locking mechanism for wide range harmonic detection and false lock detection" was invented by Venkateswara Pothireddy (McKinney, Texas) and Bhavesh G. Bhakta (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a phase detector configured to produce a first up signal and a first down signal based on a difference between a reference clock and a feedback clock and a harmonic detector coupled to the phase detector, the harmonic detector configured to produce a second up signal based on the first up signal and whether the h...