ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,302, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Delay line temperature calibration" 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 includes multiple variable-delay circuits and may generate an output signal that is a delayed version of an input signal. A calibration circuit includes an oscillator circuit that may generate an oscillator signal, and may include a replica of at least one of the multiple variable-delay circuits. The calibration circuit may perform an init...