US Patent Issued to CIENA on May 13 for "Method and system for boosting the speed of a ring-based frequency divider" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,238, issued on May 13, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Method and system for boosting the speed of a ring-based frequency divider" was invented by Mohammad Honarparvar (Stittsville, Canada), Ahmed Mustafa (Kanata, Canada), Naim Ben-Hamida (Ottawa) and Nahla Abouelkheir (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a frequency divider, comprising a plurality of delay devices arranged to receive input clocks and generate output clocks, wherein one or more of the delay devices comprises a first transconductance element configured to receive a first input and provi...