ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,173, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THINE ELECTRONICS INC. (Tokyo).

"Phase interpolation circuit" was invented by Tomohiro Ishida (Tokyo) and Shunichi Kubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current control unit 10 of a phase interpolation circuit 1 includes M slice circuits 60B0 to 60BM-1 having a common configuration. Each slice circuit 60Bm includes a selector 61, a PMOS transistor 62, an NMOS transistor 63, a PMOS transistor 64, an NMOS transistor 65, a first standby voltage set circuit 70, and a second standby voltage set circuit 80. The first standby voltage set circuit 70 has a configuration connecting the first node ...