H03B 5/1246
The means comprising transistors used to provide a variable capacitance
Official title: {the means comprising transistors used to provide a variable capacitance}
H03B5/1246 (The means comprising transistors used to provide a variable capacitance) appears on 242 US grants and 231 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03B- Granted patents
- 242
- Published applications
- 231
- Assignees
- 124
- Inventors
- 451
- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2 |
| 2002 | 2 | 4 |
| 2003 | 6 | 13 |
| 2004 | 10 | 11 |
| 2005 | 8 | 21 |
| 2006 | 16 | 15 |
| 2007 | 14 | 13 |
| 2008 | 12 | 22 |
| 2009 | 13 | 22 |
| 2010 | 11 | 11 |
| 2011 | 14 | 8 |
| 2012 | 18 | 6 |
| 2013 | 6 | 5 |
| 2014 | 7 | 9 |
| 2015 | 8 | 5 |
| 2016 | 12 | 8 |
| 2017 | 9 | 4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7 | 6 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9 |
| 2022 | 11 | 8 |
| 2023 | 7 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3 |
| 2025 | 7 | 8 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Voltage controlled oscillator and method2 Jun 2026US 12,647,071 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) having cascode transistors with improved signal quality and gain2 Jun 2026US 12,647,072 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Operation point stabilization for VCO-ADC using switched-capacitor frequency-to-current conversion2 Dec 2025US 12,489,398 B2Infineon Technologies AG
- Device and method for adaptive loop gain of oscillator4 Nov 2025US 12,463,591 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Highly coupled inductor design for reducing area and power consumption of a multi-core oscillator28 Oct 2025US 12,456,950 B2STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Highly coupled inductor design for reducing area and power consumption of a multi-core oscillator29 Jan 2026US 2026/0031762 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Operation point stabilization for vco-adc using switched-capacitor frequency-to-current conversion23 Oct 2025US 2025/0330122 A1Infineon Technologies AG
- Dynamic tuning of an off voltage-controlled oscillator (vco) of a multi-core vco in a reduced-core mode25 Sep 2025US 2025/0300601 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Oscillator with Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET) Resonator14 Aug 2025US 2025/0260365 A1Apple Inc.
- Voltage-controlled oscillator (vco) having cascode transistors with improved signal quality and gain26 Jun 2025US 2025/0211169 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
Most cited
By later US patents
- Dual-band coupled VCO148US 8,125,282 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) · 2012
- System and method for narrow band PLL tuning91US 6,426,680 B1Broadcom Corporation · 2002
- Apparatus and method for phase lock loop gain control using unit current sources81US 6,583,675 B2Broadcom Corporation · 2003
- Resonant circuit and a voltage-controlled oscillator60US 7,183,870 B2Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc. · 2007
- Integrated VCO having an improved tuning range over process and temperature variations59US 6,803,829 B2Broadcom Corporation · 2004