US Patent Issued to Apple on April 21 for "Digitally controlled delay line with tunable ranges" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,686, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Digitally controlled delay line with tunable ranges" was invented by Yudong Zhang (San Diego), Hanan Cohen (San Diego), Jacob S. Schneider (San Diego) and Sanjeev K. Maheshwari (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delay-line circuit that includes both fixed-delay line circuit and a variable delay-line circuit is disclosed. The fixed delay-line circuit may generate a first output clock signal by delaying an input clock signal by a particular delay period. The variable delay-line circuit may include multiple fixed-delay circuits and variable-delay c...