ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,679, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS INC. (Lowell, Mass.).

"Preamble data alignment for constant latency" was invented by Jinkyu Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyunbae Jin (Seoul, South Korea), Ilhyun Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kwangseok Han (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a data sink for aligning data between a source and a sink are described herein. An example data sink includes timing circuitry configured to generate an output clock signal, the output clock signal having a variable phase based at least in part on receipt of a reference clock signal, a...