ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,574, issued on July 29.
"Skew detection and compensation for high speed I/O links" was invented by Jong-Ru Guo (Portland, Ore.), Jingbo Li (Portland, Ore.), Xiaoning Ye (Portland, Ore.), Zuoguo Wu (San Jose, Calif.) and Howard L. Heck (Tigard, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may comprise a skew detection circuit to sample a common mode voltage of a differential signal, wherein the sampled common mode voltage is indicative of an amount of skew between a first signal of the differential signal and a second signal of the differential signal; and a skew compensation circuit to adjust a delay of the first signal or the se...