ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,756, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ANRITSU Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Signal generation apparatus and signal generation method" was invented by Hironori Yoshioka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tatsuya Iwai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The signal generation apparatus includes a phase difference calculation processing unit that calculates an initial phase difference between a division clock or an external clock selected by a clock selection unit and an initial value of the phase of the toggle pattern based on a relationship between the voltage value acquired by the phase acquisition processing unit and a change amount from ...