ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,535, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Digital clock data recovery circuit and method for locking frequency of recovery clock signal thereof" was invented by Yun Peng (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Yushyang Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital clock data recovery circuit is provided and includes a phase lock loop circuit and a frequency lock loop circuit coupled to the phase lock loop circuit. The phase lock loop circuit generates a recovery clock signal according to a pre-divider value, a feedback divider value, and an input reference clock signal. The freq...