ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,900, issued on May 26, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Delay line monitoring to maintain a data eye" was invented by Paul Zavalney (Austin, Texas), Tak Ying Wong (Singapore), Harikrishnan Prabha Valsala (Singapore) and Pio Balmelli (Arogno, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an apparatus includes: a delay line to receive a clock signal and a plurality of settings, each of the settings to indicate a selected tap of the delay line at which to output the clock signal. The delay line is to output a capture clock based on a first setting, and monitor clocks based on additional settings. Th...