US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 21 for "Transformer-coupled input buffer for frequency synthesis" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,840, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Transformer-coupled input buffer for frequency synthesis" was invented by Sonam Sadhukhan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Arpan Thakkar (Bangalore, India) and Pranav Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency synthesis circuit includes a first inductor coupled to receive a first input signal at an input frequency, and a second inductor coupled to receive second input signal at the input frequency and out-of-phase relative to the first input signal. The circuit has first and second transistors with control terminals coupled to the first and second...