Patents by Inventor Marco Vinciguerra

Marco Vinciguerra has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Calibration method for phase-locked loops and related circuit
    Patent number: 12088310
    Abstract: A voltage-controlled oscillator in a phase-locked loop circuit is calibrated via a dichotomous search in a set of candidate frequency bands via a sequence of subsequent halving steps that produce reduced subsets of the set of candidate frequency bands. The reduced subsets have respective upper bound values and lower bound values, as well as central values. The central value of the subset resulting from the halving step of index i in the sequence is a function of the average of the upper bound value and the lower bound value of the subset resulting from the halving step of index i?1 in the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Davide Nicolo Fortunato, Antonino Calcagno, Marco Vinciguerra, Angelo Scuderi, Gaetano Cosentino
  • CALIBRATION METHOD FOR PHASE-LOCKED LOOPS AND RELATED CIRCUIT
    Publication number: 20230327677
    Abstract: A voltage-controlled oscillator in a phase-locked loop circuit is calibrated via a dichotomous search in a set of candidate frequency bands via a sequence of subsequent halving steps that produce reduced subsets of the set of candidate frequency bands. The reduced subsets have respective upper bound values and lower bound values, as well as central values. The central value of the subset resulting from the halving step of index i in the sequence is a function of the average of the upper bound value and the lower bound value of the subset resulting from the halving step of index i?1 in the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Davide Nicolo Fortunato, Antonino Calcagno, Marco Vinciguerra, Angelo Scuderi, Gaetano Cosentino