H03L 7/18
Using a frequency divider or counter in the loop
Official title: using a frequency divider or counter in the loop (H03L7/20, H03L7/22 take precedence)
H03L7/18 (Using a frequency divider or counter in the loop) appears on 5,220 US grants and 3,767 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03L- Granted patents
- 5,220
- Published applications
- 3,767
- Assignees
- 1,187
- Inventors
- 6,878
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 182 | 194 |
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| 2023 | 89 | 77 |
| 2024 | 86 | 81 |
| 2025 | 73 | 67 |
| 2026 | 56 | 67 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H03L 7/197A time difference being used for locking the loop, the counter counting1,806
- H03L 7/183A time difference being used for locking the loop, the counter counting1,627
- H03L 7/181A numerical count result being used for locking the loop, the counter172
- H03L 7/1806The frequency divider comprising a phase accumulator generating the frequency divided signal136
- H03L 7/1803The counter or frequency divider being connected to a cycle or pulse17
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- Phase-locked loop and method of operating the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312596 A1SK hynix Inc.
- Systems having a phase frequency detector1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303101 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Phase locked loop and operation method thereof1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303104 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Delay locked loop device and method for operating the same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291505 A1Nanya Technology Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for dual-band antenna matching340US 7,180,467 B2Kyocera Wireless Corp. · 2007
- Digital compensation for wideband modulation of a phase locked loop frequency synthesizer313US 6,008,703 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1999
- 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
- Tunable horn antenna238US 6,867,744 B2Kyocera Wireless Corp. · 2005