US Patent Issued to Shaoxing Yuanfang Semiconductor on April 14 for "Reducing non-linearity in a digital-to-time converter (DTC) due to unequal successive input codes specifying respective delays" (Indian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,657, issued on April 14, was assigned to Shaoxing Yuanfang Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Shaoxing, China).

"Reducing non-linearity in a digital-to-time converter (DTC) due to unequal successive input codes specifying respective delays" was invented by Venkata Kalyan Kumar Kota (Bangalore, India), Augusto Manuel Marques (Norwich, Great Britain), Rakesh Kumar Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Raja Prabhu J (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital-to-time converter (DTC) of a fractional-n PLL contains a delay generator and a current-drawing block. The current drawn by the delay generator from the power supply contains: (A) a fix...