H03L 7/187
Using means for coarse tuning the voltage controlled oscillator of the loop
Official title: using means for coarse tuning the voltage controlled oscillator of the loop (H03L7/191 - H03L7/195 take precedence)
H03L7/187 (Using means for coarse tuning the voltage controlled oscillator of the loop) appears on 328 US grants and 174 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Simple self-disciplined oscillator29 Sep 2026US 12,750,062 B1
- High gain detector techniques for low bandwidth low noise phase-locked loops18 Aug 2026US 12,712,551 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Clock synthesizer18 Aug 2026US 12,712,552 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Self-synchronized scheme for enforcing phase coherency in a system with multiple frequency dividers23 Jun 2026US 12,665,604 B2NXP B. V.
- Coarse-mover with sequential finer tuning step25 Nov 2025US 12,483,253 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Crystal-less transceiver jitter mitigation9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197005 A1Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.
- Self-Synchronized Scheme For Enforcing Phase Coherency In A System With Multiple Frequency Dividers23 Apr 2026US 2026/0113046 A1NXP B. V.
- Coarse-Mover with Sequential Finer Tuning Step26 Feb 2026US 2026/0058665 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Triple-path clock and data recovery circuit, oscillator circuit and method for clock and data recovery11 Sep 2025US 2025/0286557 A1M31 Technology Corporation
- Dual mode phase-locked loop circuit, oscillator circuit, and control method of oscillator circuit12 Jun 2025US 2025/0192787 A1M31 Technology Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fast settling phase locked loop156US 5,334,952 ASpectraLink Corporation · 1994
- Method and apparatus for providing coarse and fine tuning control for synthesizing high-frequency signals for wireless communications117US 6,137,372 ASilicon Laboratories Inc. · 2000
- Oscillator circuit with first and second frequency control elements114US 5,898,345 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Frequency synthesizer having compensation for nonlinearities95US 4,980,652 ANippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation · 1990
- Low voltage and low power frequency synthesizer93US 4,893,087 AMotorola, Inc. · 1990