ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,451, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Multiphase clock generator" was invented by Jacob Pike (Ottawa), Sadok Aouini (Gatineau, Canada) and Naim Ben-Hamida (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a multiphase clock generator having a plurality of digital phase interpolators each configured to create a generated clock signal according to an applied digital code, wherein a first digital code applied to a first digital phase interpolator and a second digital code applied to a second digital phase interpolator are chosen in a less precise range such th...