ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,036, issued on April 21, was assigned to Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Direct digital synthesizer circuit, measurement system, and method of operating a direct digital synthesizer circuit" was invented by Julius Seeger (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DDS circuit includes a phase accumulator circuit. The phase accumulator circuit includes a clock input being configured to receive a clock signal. The phase accumulator circuit includes a frequency tuning register configured to receive a frequency tuning word (FTW), and a phase shift register configured to receive a phase shift word (PSW). The phase accumulator circu...