ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,203, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"High speed phase detector" was invented by Ian Dedic (Maynard, Mass.), Darren Walker (Maynard, Mass.) and Vineet Mishra (Maynard, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a phase detector. The phase detector may include a first inductor having an inductance L1; a second inductor having an inductance L2; and a frequency mixer having a parasitic capacitance CTail, the frequency mixer comprising, a common node tail; a first clock signal generator configured to output a first clock signal having a first frequency, a...