H03L 7/0992
Comprising a counter or a frequency divider
Official title: {comprising a counter or a frequency divider}
H03L7/0992 (Comprising a counter or a frequency divider) appears on 639 US grants and 455 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03L- Granted patents
- 639
- Published applications
- 455
- Assignees
- 283
- Inventors
- 1,102
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986 | 7 | 0 |
| 1987 | 6 | 0 |
| 1988 | 4 | 0 |
| 1989 | 7 | 0 |
| 1990 | 6 | 0 |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996 | 13 | 0 |
| 1997 | 9 | 0 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 10 | 0 |
| 2000 | 12 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2 |
| 2002 | 5 | 7 |
| 2003 | 8 | 7 |
| 2004 | 9 | 8 |
| 2005 | 4 | 5 |
| 2006 | 9 | 8 |
| 2007 | 6 | 9 |
| 2008 | 5 | 10 |
| 2009 | 7 | 3 |
| 2010 | 12 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 5 | 1 |
| 2013 | 8 | 10 |
| 2014 | 7 | 8 |
| 2015 | 13 | 24 |
| 2016 | 28 | 18 |
| 2017 | 20 | 22 |
| 2018 | 20 | 27 |
| 2019 | 52 | 38 |
| 2020 | 53 | 57 |
| 2021 | 60 | 35 |
| 2022 | 45 | 36 |
| 2023 | 37 | 34 |
| 2024 | 37 | 37 |
| 2025 | 32 | 21 |
| 2026 | 14 | 23 |
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
- Apparatus, system, and method of local oscillator (LO) generator18 Aug 2026US 12,712,554 B2Intel Corporation
- Phase-locked loop4 Aug 2026US 12,700,869 B2ams-OSRAM AG
- 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.
- Signal generation device, imaging device, and electronic apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280571 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Digital Phase-Locked Loop Circuitry10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269834 A1Apple Inc.
- Methods and apparatus to generate clock signals using sampler-based phase detection3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261264 A1
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
- Phase locked loop employing a fractional frequency synthesizer as a variable oscillator155US 6,710,951 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Receiver and transmitter-receiver78US 5,661,765 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997