ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,697, issued on March 31, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method of generating in-phase and quadrature-phase clock signals" was invented by Yongjian Tang (San Diego) and Xiaohua Kong (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock signal generator, including: an in-phase clock generating circuit, comprising: an inverter configured to invert an input clock signal to generate a substantially square wave voltage; and a first transimpedance amplifier (TIA) configured to generate an in-phase clock signal based on the substantially square wave voltage; and a quadrature-phase clock generating circuit comprising: a load capacit...