ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,119, issued on June 2, was assigned to WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Delay locked loop and semiconductor memory device" was invented by Shinya Okuno (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a delay locked loop (DLL) that can complete the process of adjusting the delay of an internal clock signal within a predetermined execution period. The DLL includes a DLL control circuit and a delay line circuit. The DLL control circuit sets the delay amount based on the phase difference between an input clock signal and an output clock signal. The delay line circuit performs a delay opera...