US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on June 23 for "High-speed four-phase twenty-five percent duty clock generator" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,578, issued on June 23, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"High-speed four-phase twenty-five percent duty clock generator" was invented by Chia-Liang (Leon) Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A four-phase clock generator includes a four-stage ring including four MOS transistors of a first conductivity type, each configured in a common-source arrangement and interconnected in a ring topology to sequentially and cyclically de-assert phases of a four-phase output clock, respectively; a first alternate-phase cross-coupling pair of MOS transistors of the first conductivity type configured to c...