US Patent Issued to CIENA on March 11 for "Apparatus and method for wideband multi-phase clock generation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,990, issued on March 11, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Apparatus and method for wideband multi-phase clock generation" was invented by Jacob Pike (Ottawa), Naim Ben-Hamida (Ottawa), Jerry Yee-Tung Lam (Markham, Canada), Euhan Chong (Kanata, Canada) and David Berton (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an inner clock generation circuit, including: a selectable frequency divider having: a ring of tri-state inverters; a reset gate on an output of each tri-state inverter in the ring; and a reset circuit comprising one or more selectable flip-flops; and a duty-c...