ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,705, issued on March 31, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Calibration circuit to suppress non-linearity" was invented by Zhaowen Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lei Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Stanley Y. Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe a calibration circuit including a multi-phase clock generator configured to receive a clock signal and generate a multi-phase clock output, the multi-phase clock generator including a first injection-locked oscillator, a mixer, a current digital-to-analog converter (IDAC), and a voltage to current converter (VTOI), the IDAC and VTOI configur...