ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,391, issued on April 29, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Low latency data handoff using phase rotation and clock gapping" was invented by Andrew McCarthy (Stittsville, Canada), Sadok Aouini (Gatineau, Canada), Manoj Verghese (Ottawa) and Naim Ben-Hamida (Nepean, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a phase rotator configured to receive a read clock, a flip flop configured to obtain an incoming data stream, and a controller. The controller may be configured to control the phase rotator to perform phase rotation of the read clock based on inform...