ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,928, issued on March 25, was assigned to Credo Technology Group Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Receivers and method with fast sampling phase and frequency acquisition" was invented by Yu Liao (Longmont, Colo.) and Junqing Sun (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fast sampling phase and frequency acquisition suitable for incorporation into various high bandwidth receivers and receiving methods. One illustrative integrated circuit receiver or "deserializer" design has: a clock circuit that provides a sample clock; an analog to digital converter that samples a receive signal in accordance with the sample clock to prov...