US Patent Issued to NXP on Aug. 25 for "Multi-phase clock generation device" (Austrian, Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,481, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Multi-phase clock generation device" was invented by Thomas Baier (Graz, Austria), Jan van Sinderen (Liempde, Netherlands) and Jens Fleischhacker (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a multiphase clock generation device may include an input for feeding a reference clock, a clock generation unit adapted to generate phase-shifted clock signals from the reference clock, and a phase comparator unit functionally coupled with the clock generation unit. The phase comparator unit is adapted to measure a phase shift of the phase-shifted cloc...