ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,358, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Clock spur reduction via phase-controlled replica path" was invented by Shahin Mehdizad Taleie (San Diego), Dongwon Seo (San Diego), Bhushan Shanti Asuri (San Diego), Ibrahim Ramez Chamas (Carlsbad, Calif.), Huan Wang (Irvine, Calif.), Zhiheng Wang (San Diego) and Reza Rodd (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus and techniques to generate signals for clock spur attenuation. An example apparatus generally includes: one or more circuits coupled between a voltage rail and a reference potential node, wherein ...