US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Sept. 9 for "Apparatus and method for clock frequency estimation with least squares method" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,159, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Apparatus and method for clock frequency estimation with least squares method" was invented by Gary Qu Jin (Kanata, Canada) and Kamran Rahbar (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a clock signal input, a sampling circuit, and an estimation circuit. The clock signal input receives N time measurements. A time measurement denotes a respective portion of a given cycle of a clock signal. The sampling circuit is to generate a first sampled window from the clock signal input. The first sampled window includes an accumulation...