US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Jan. 28 for "Phase detectors with extrapolation of timing events" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,328, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Phase detectors with extrapolation of timing events" was invented by Reuben P. Nelson (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for clock synchronization and frequency translation are provided herein. Clock synchronization and frequency translation integrated circuits (ICs) generate one or more output clock signals having a controlled timing relationship with respect to one or more reference signals. The teachings herein provide a number of improvements to clock synchronization and frequency translation ICs, including, but ...