US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Dec. 9 for "Determining a locked status of a clock tracking circuit" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,789, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Determining a locked status of a clock tracking circuit" was invented by William Roberts (Highland, Utah), Waleed El-halwagy (Ottawa), Youcef Fouzar (Ottawa) and Kristopher Kshonze (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes a phase detector, a digital discriminator, and a logic circuit. A status signal of the phase detector is at least partially based on a phase relationship between a reference clock and a feedback clock, the feedback clock generated by a clock tracking circuit to track the reference clock. The digital discri...