ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,361, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Digital phase-locked loops" was invented by Saleh Karman (Villach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital phase-locked loop includes a first clock divider, a decimation filter, a proportional integral filter, a signal conditioner, and a digitally controlled oscillator. The first clock divider divides a first clock signal including a first clock rate to generate a second clock signal including a second clock rate less than the first clock rate. The decimation filter converts an input signal at the first clock rate to an output signal at ...