ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,594, issued on July 14, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manfuacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Systems and methods for duty-cycle and phase error detector (DPED) with chopping cancellation technique" was invented by Wei Shuo Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit may comprise a first multiplexer, a second multiplexer, a combination of logic gates, a third multiplexer, a first low-pas filter, and a second low-pass filter. The first multiplexer can be configured to receive and select a first clock signal, a second clock signal, a third clock signal, and a fourth clock signal. Respective phases of the fir...