ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION USING DIFFERENTIAL OSCILLATOR TECHNIQUES

Application No. 18/213,424

• Filed: Jun 23, 2023
• Examiner: JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY
• Assignee: Intel Corporation
• OA Round: 1 (Non-Final)

Office Action

Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –

(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.

Claim(s) 13 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by
Yoo (US 2021/0132643)
With regard to claim 13, Yoo discloses:
An apparatus comprising:a pair of voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs), the pair comprising: a first voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) (121 Fig. 1) , the first VCO comprising a first biasing stage receiving an input voltage signal (111 Fig, 1) , and a first output stage coupled to the first biasing stage, the first output stage generating a first output frequency signal based on the input voltage signal; and a second VCO (122 Fig. 1) , the second VCO comprising a second biasing stage receiving the input voltage signal (112 Fig. 1), and a second output stage coupled to the second biasing stage, the second output stage generating a second output frequency signal based on the input voltage signal.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-12 and 19-20 are allowed.
Claims 14-18 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to PEGUY JEAN PIERRE whose telephone number is [phone]. The examiner can normally be reached from 8:00-6:30 PM Monday-Thursday. The examiner’s fax phone number is [phone]. The Examiner email address is [e-mail]. If attempts to reach the Examiner are unsuccessful, the Examiner’s supervisor Dameon E. Levi can be reached at [phone].

/PEGUY JEAN PIERRE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845

Prosecution Timeline

• Jun 23, 2023: Application Filed
• Oct 24, 2023: Response after Non-Final Action
• Aug 03, 2026: Non-Final Rejection mailed — §102 (current)