US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Nov. 18 for "Phase lock loop reference loss detection" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,643, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Phase lock loop reference loss detection" was invented by Shailesh Ganapat Ghotgalkar (Bangalore, India), Wei Fu (Plano, Texas) and Venkatseema Das (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, a first clock generator generates an output clock signal in response to an input reference signal and in response to a feedback signal that is generated in response to the output clock signal. A code generator generates a code in response to the input reference signal. A loss detector generates an indication of a loss of the input reference sign...