ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,656, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Phase interpolator circuitry with post-distortion linearization" was invented by Bo Sun (Carlsbad, Calif.), Brian S Leibowitz (San Francisco), Sanjeev K Maheshwari (Fremont, Calif.) and Jafar Savoj (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure is directed to a phase interpolator (PI) with phase correction circuitry. The phase interpolator may generate a clock signal with a phase value. The phase correction circuitry may adjust the phase value of the clock signal to compensate for at least a portion of the undesired distortions. The ...