ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,629, issued on July 7, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"System and method of generating signals for analog-digital converter (ADC) calibration" was invented by Yong Liu (Irvine, Calif.), Xi Yang (Irvine, Calif.), Xiaochen Yang (Irvine, Calif.) and Jun Cao (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include an oscillator and a driver. The oscillator may be coupled to circuitry providing calibration of the oscillator. The oscillator may receive from the circuitry a first signal that causes the oscillator to generate a second signal having a first frequency to be used for cali...