ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,365, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device and method for detecting a harmonic state" was invented by Andreas Schubert (Coswig, Germany) and Alexander Richter (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection of harmonic states in a delay-locked loop. A plurality of delayed clock signals within the delay-locked loop is evaluated and, on the basis thereof, in particular on the basis of the time points of the rising edges in the delayed clock signals, it is ascertained whether a harmonic state has arisen in the delay-locked loop."

The patent was filed on May 3, 2022, under Applicat...