US Patent Issued to Samsung Electronics on Sept. 22 for "Calibrated delay lines for generation of accurate and programmable phase delays between outputs of frequency dividers" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,521, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Calibrated delay lines for generation of accurate and programmable phase delays between outputs of frequency dividers" was invented by Chung Y. Lau (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sai Krishna Rayudu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for generating accurate and programmable phase delay output signals, including a phase detector unit configured to determine a phase disparity signal based on a phase error between outputs of a frequency divider unit cell; a digital calibration logic unit configured to generate a c...