ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,722, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sogang University Research Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit for detecting frequency and phase of clock signal, operating method thereof, and clock and data recovery circuit including integrated circuit" was invented by Jinwook Burm (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jongmin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a phase shifted data generation circuit, a synchronization circuit, and a control signal generation circuit configured to generate a reference clock control signal ...