US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 11 for "Fractional frequency-divider circuit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,610, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Fractional frequency-divider circuit" was invented by Richard Y. Su (Santa Clara, Calif.), Boon-Aik Ang (Los Altos, Calif.), Dennis M. Fischette Jr. (Mountain View, Calif.), Samed Maltabas (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shaobo Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fractional frequency-divider circuit is disclosed. The fractional frequency-divider circuit includes a phase generation circuit that receives an input clock signal that has a first frequency, and generates multiple phase signals using the input clock signal. The fractional frequency-divide...