US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 17 for "Duty ratio correction circuit, clock distribution system, and duty ratio correction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,166, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Duty ratio correction circuit, clock distribution system, and duty ratio correction method" was invented by Hajime Sakai (Tokyo) and Shinichi Hori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A duty ratio correction circuit includes: a duty ratio adjustment circuit that adjusts a duty ratio of an input first clock, based on a control signal, and outputs a second clock being the first clock in which the duty ratio is adjusted; an inverted signal generation circuit that receives the second clock, and outputs an output clock having a phase of the second clock, and an inverted clock be...