H03L 7/06
Automatic control of frequency or phase: using a reference signal applied to
Official title: using a reference signal applied to a frequency- or phase-locked loop
H03L7/06 (Automatic control of frequency or phase: using a reference signal applied to) appears on 17,893 US grants and 12,947 published applications in this corpus.
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| 2026 | 268 | 258 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Time to digital converter (TDC) circuit with self-adaptive time granularity and related methods29 Sep 2026US 12,748,385 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
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- Compensation Technique for the Nonlinear Behavior of Digitally-Controlled Oscillator (DCO) Gain8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312591 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Lock detector including digital calibration8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312592 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Phase-Locked Loop Circuit8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312593 A1Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
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