US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Enhanced PPM frequency offset detector" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,326, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Enhanced PPM frequency offset detector" was invented by Matthew James Paschal (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe circuitry and techniques to implement an enhanced PPM frequency offset detector and methods for implementing operational functions of one or more embodiments of the PPM frequency offset detector to detect a frequency offset between two clock signals. An enhanced PPM frequency offset detector of one or more embodiments reduces circuitry and power requirements, eliminating circuitry require...