US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 30 for "Methods and devices for selecting a desired sub-harmonic of a high-frequency clock" (Oregon, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,944, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for selecting a desired sub-harmonic of a high-frequency clock" was invented by Sanket Jain (Cedar Park, Texas), Benjamin Jann (Portland, Ore.), Ashoke Ravi (Portland, Ore.) and Satwik Patnaik (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for suppressing undesired sub-harmonics includes a plurality of mixers, wherein the plurality of mixers are connected in parallel; a plurality of local oscillator signals (LO), wherein each of the plurality of LOs is associated with one of the plurality of mixers; an input to receive a plural...