US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 17 for "Clock data recovery linearity improvement" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,574, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Clock data recovery linearity improvement" was invented by Chia Heng Chang (San Diego), Zhi Zhu (San Diego) and Russell Deans (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for phase adjustment includes receiving a phase control signal for a phase interpolator, determining the phase control signal is located within one of first phase zones, and adjusting the phase control signal by a first step size upon determining the phase control signal is located within one of the first phase zones. The method also includes determining the phase control signal is loc...