ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,303, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data link transmitter calibration" was invented by Ravi Shivnaraine (Pickering, Canada), Charles Walter Boecker (Ames, Iowa), Michael Raymond Trombley (Cary, N.C.), Eric Douglas Groen (Ankeny, Iowa), Simon S. Li (Cupertino, Calif.) and Shankar Srinivasa Tangirala (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for clock phase calibration between source logic and a coupled serial data link transmitter, enabling low-latency synchronization into the transmitter. In calibration mode, a phase relationship i...