H03L 7/0991
The oscillator being a digital oscillator
Official title: {the oscillator being a digital oscillator, e.g. composed of a fixed oscillator followed by a variable frequency divider (H03L7/0995 takes precedence; fixed oscillators with means for selecting among various phases H03L7/0814)}
H03L7/0991 (The oscillator being a digital oscillator) appears on 1,422 US grants and 1,041 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03L- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 63 | 46 |
| 2026 | 39 | 41 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Clock tracking circuit with digital integral path to provide control signals for digital and analog integral inputs of an oscillator6 Oct 2026US 12,756,398 B2Microchip Technology Incorporated
- Simple self-disciplined oscillator29 Sep 2026US 12,750,062 B1
- Digital clock data recovery circuit and method for locking frequency of recovery clock signal thereof22 Sep 2026US 12,744,535 B1Himax Technologies Limited
- All digital phase-locked loop circuit8 Sep 2026US 12,732,197 B2Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Q-band block down converter8 Sep 2026US 12,732,219 B2Hughes Network Systems, LLC
- Compensation Technique for the Nonlinear Behavior of Digitally-Controlled Oscillator (DCO) Gain8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312591 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Phase-Locked Loop Circuit8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312593 A1Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
- Tunable digitally controlled oscillator8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312594 A1Google Inc.
- Serializer and method for operating the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312595 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Phase-locked loop and method of operating the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312596 A1SK hynix Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Clock recovery using a double-exponential smoothing process283US 7,020,791 B1Nortel Networks Limited · 2006
- Technique for synchronizing clocks in a network278US 7,043,651 B2Nortel Networks Limited · 2006
- Clock recovery using a direct smoothing process244US 7,130,368 B1Nortel Network Limited · 2006
- Global positioning system course acquisition code receiver228US 4,754,465 ATrimble Navigation Limited · 1988
- Circuits and methods of implementing time-average-frequency direct period synthesizer on programmable logic chip and driving applications using the same188US 9,621,173 B12017