US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on May 12 for "Synchronous time-to-charge converter" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,303, issued on May 12, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Synchronous time-to-charge converter" was invented by Chia-Liang (Leon) Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-to-charge converter (TCC) includes a phase detector configured to receive a first clock and a second clock and output a phase error signal indicative of the time difference between the second clock and the first clock; a current source configured to generate a tail current; a current directing network configured to direct the tail current towards either a first node or a second node based on the phase error signal; a syn...