ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,080, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Clock frequency limiter" was invented by Jose A. Tierno (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Ajay M. Rao (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver circuit that limits the frequency of a clock signal used in a computer system is disclosed. An embodiment of the receiver circuit includes a front-end circuit configured to generate an equalized signal, a clock generator circuit configured to generate a clock signal using a plurality of samples of the equalized signal, and a measurement circuit. The measurement circuit is configured to monitor a frequency of the...